Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning to everybody. Thank you for being here. In the comments, I think there have been a lot of good feedback and statistics that will be helpful for the finance committee to provide a context for where the country's at.
I want to focus my round on the cost of living, and particularly the carbon tax.
Mr. Warren, my family comes from a trucking background. My father owned a trucking company that was about the same size for 30-some years. He retired just last year.
I want to see if you can help us eliminate this perception that the carbon tax being imposed does not affect grocery prices, that it doesn't add to the cost of groceries. You gave some numbers about the cost of doing a run and the fuel surcharge and what's being added to it. You talked about the tight margins you already had before the carbon tax came in. Can you give us a backgrounder and debunk the myth that whenever a carbon tax is being charged, that is not being passed on to the consumer by adding to the cost of trucking and adding to the price of groceries?