Yes. I will use the fullness of time, as the rules allow and as is my right as a parliamentarian.
We know that Liberals, through Bill C-18, otherwise like to silence opposition, but I won't be silenced, because I don't just represent myself; I represent the people of Northumberland—Peterborough South. They duly elected me and they won't be silenced, so I will continue, Mr. Chair.
I was talking about the impact of the carbon tax. To relate it back—out of respect—to where I'm going to end up, national unity issues flare up because of this Liberal government, and because of issues of Liberal governments in the past. We were talking about the carbon tax and the impact of the exemption on national unity.
Mr. Chair, I have two children, and I love them absolutely equally. If I were to say to them that one child gets treatment over the other, I'd almost certainly be causing disunity and discord in my family. It's really that simple. You can't make a deal with one province and then not make it with the rest of the provinces.
This has thrown our entire country into carbon tax chaos. It's pitting brother against brother and sister against sister. This is incredibly reckless and definitely not worth the risk.
We see the exemption.... I see the demagoguery that goes on in the House of Commons. They say that this is a national program. Maybe legally it is, but effectively it disproportionately helps the folks out in Atlantic Canada, because they use oil.
One thing that's really been bothering me is that the Minister of Environment will get up there and say that they're doing this because home heating oil is really expensive. Okay. The whole idea behind the carbon tax is to create an impetus for people to switch to other products or other solutions because it is really expensive.
When we look at home heating oil costing folks in Atlantic Canada tens of thousands of dollars, that's mission accomplished. That's what you guys set out to do. That's the goal of the carbon tax. It's to make things more expensive.
That's why you put in place a carbon tax. It's to make things more expensive. That's why it exists. That's the market mechanism.
When the Minister of Environment gets up there and is shocked that—