It was quite a moment.
Chair, it was interesting that with the then environment minister—and I know the former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall quite well—there was a willingness to develop those relationships to work together for the good of our country. Although they might have disagreed on the politics—and I can assure you that Brad Wall and Justin Trudeau do not agree on very much when it comes to politics—there was a willingness and an understanding, with Justin Trudeau having just won the election, that there was a need to work together. However, that only went in one direction.
Chair, what is so disgusting, quite frankly, is that we have seen an erosion of national unity that has taken place over the last eight or so years that Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister. There has been an erosion of national unity, Chair, because we have seen, continually, how the Prime Minister does not care about our nation's unity, does not care about ensuring a prosperous Canada for all, but rather he's quick to hold some back so that he can pick winners and losers. The result, Mr. Chair, is a divided country.
The reason I talk about the carbon tax, and specifically the way the then leader of the Liberal Party—the third party at the time—talked about the carbon tax, is that he promised it would be a collaborative process. Yet, we saw that, the moment he was elected, it was nothing more than talk. If I could give credit to the Liberals for one thing—I apologize to my Conservative colleagues—it is that they are good at politics. They are good at the rhetoric, good at saying the right things at the right time and good at the strategy associated with that.
Chair, the ultimate reason that is not a compliment is they are so good at politics for the purposes of attaining power that they are leaving our country divided and weaker as a result. To my friends across the table in the Liberal Party, being good at politics is not enough to be good at governing the country. You have to be willing to work together. We've seen time and time again that they are simply incapable of doing that.
Mr. Chair, the carbon tax is a good example. We had a number of provincial governments elected throughout the last eight years that specifically opposed the carbon tax. You would think that would be a valid question that a provincial government could run on, especially after I read the Supreme Court ruling on that. If I could sum it up in the fact that—