Thank you, Chair, for the opportunity to speak.
With regard to the excise tax and the legislative adjustments that were done in the first session, from 2015-19, which I was a part of, and also in chairing the wine caucus, which has many members from the opposite side, and also being part of the beer caucus, if I can use that terminology in a serious sense, we worked with industry. We worked with the wine, spirits and beer industries to land at a spot where an announcement was made, supported by these very critical sectors of economy, which employ a lot of middle-class Canadians.
I wish to applaud the Deputy Prime Minister and the team for working so collaboratively and getting to a point at which the industry, the workers and the unions are happy. We capped the excise indexation rate at 2%. We also provided a good-sized tax cut to craft brewers of a certain size and also provided the wine sector with the wine sector support program for the next three years, which will see the sectors receiving a good flow of funding for growth, while driving tourism and jobs.
Mr. Chair, I'll leave it at that. I'll limit my interventions today, but I wanted to intervene on this one.