Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Deputy Prime Minister, thank you for coming. Since it's the first time you've been at the committee since the start of the war, I want to commend the government for its actions in pushing back on the Russian Federation. I know you've done a lot of work on that. It's a cause that's personal to you. I want you to know that you'll have support to go even further. I think we can go further to be much harsher on the regime, and I hope we do.
I have a couple of simple questions that I hope we can get to. Do you believe that consumption taxes like the carbon tax are inflationary?