It seems to me that the increase in profits that oil and gas companies have experienced far exceeds what revenue is being generated by the carbon tax. I think it would be interesting to do that comparison as an apples-to-apples exercise, because if you're a Canadian and you're looking at your household budget and trying to figure out how to put food on the table, it doesn't really matter whether an increase comes in the form of a tax or whether it's an increase in order to pay higher dividends to oil and gas shareholders. At the end of the day, it puts the same amount of pressure on your budget.
It certainly seems like oil and gas companies have been getting a pretty good ride through the pandemic period. I think that even from 2019 to 2021 there are some examples of profit increases of up to 1,000%, which sounds far more dramatic to me than the increase in the carbon tax.
I thank you for that. Certainly, if you do find some of those numbers, if you could forward them on to the committee here, we would be very appreciative of that information.
Thank you.