I appreciate that response, Mr. Boyd. With inflation, I think the government has been inflating the prices, which basically takes the goods we need and puts up the cost of them.
I want to tell you a story I heard from the leader of our party not long ago. It's from a place called Manotick, which I believe is in his riding in the eastern part of Ontario. They're synonymous for tomatoes. I'm not an expert and I don't know if they're the baby tomatoes or what kind they are, but I know that it became.... This town has a company called SunTech. It's a very big company and it's one of the large industries in the area. With the cost of doing business, with all of the multiple carbon tax increases and the inflation over the last couple of years, it actually became cheaper for Manotick to truck or ship its tomatoes in from Mexico.
Here's a Canadian town and a Canadian company that has vast experience in growing tomatoes, which is very important, and because of the cost of doing business, it's cheaper to get them from Mexico. That is a sure sign of the carbon tax weakness and the inflated prices weakness of the last couple of years.
As you know, I represent Miramichi—Grand Lake, an extremely rural riding. It's a riding where the Internet mobility service is 25 years behind places like South Korea. Most of our industry was forestry. Most of it is gone. There are definitely some addictions and some mental health issues. There are people out on bail who should be in jail; we have a number of people like that, and it's a revolving door.
I'm just wondering.... With respect to Greener Village, you mentioned seniors. I wanted to drill down on that. I'm noticing in my constituency that the seniors are really struggling. In my riding, there are a lot of seniors; that's the largest population. I live in Blackville. It's a little English community. It's a kind of satellite for the city of Miramichi, I guess, these days, and I'm seeing senior citizens who are struggling worse than I've ever seen. They're making decisions.... They can't pay their hydro bills. They're buying very unhealthy food because of the cost of food. Can you elaborate on what you're seeing with the decisions that people are making based on food?