Thank you very much.
Ms. Anderson, I want to talk to you about the carbon tax for a bit.
Since I was elected in 2019—and certainly since 2015—the mantra has been, “Canadians get back more than they pay.” We know that's not true. For example, business people don't get anything back really. They pay the carbon tax, but there's no climate action incentive that comes back directly to businesses.
Now we have a situation where the federal government created a carve-out for the carbon tax on home heating oil in Atlantic Canada, but didn't give the same benefit to the rest of the country. I'm from Manitoba. I've never met a single person who heats their house with home heating oil in Manitoba, but Winnipeg in the winter is one of the coldest cities on the planet and it's very expensive to heat your home.
By the way, we had one of the Liberal ministers actually say that, if people from Winnipeg want a break, they should “elect more Liberals”. I guess she didn't realize that we have four of them right in Winnipeg, but we didn't get the same carve-out.
I'm wondering if you think it's fair that only Atlantic Canadians got this break.