Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for being here.
I'm going to focus my questions—and try to go as quickly as I can—on the Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the CFIB.
We are experiencing a cost of living crisis in this country that we haven't seen for decades. Inflation is at record highs. We have inflation at 11.4% on food. This is causing extreme pain for Canadians across the country.
In this very committee, I had the opportunity to ask Tiff Macklem, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, about his thoughts on the carbon tax and inflation, and he wrote to this committee and said that unequivocally it is a driver of inflation.
I want to get some anecdotal evidence from you as well. I'll just go to the Federation of Agriculture, the Chamber of Commerce and the CFIB. Could I hear quickly from each of you as to whether the amount that your members are paying is balanced off by the rebate? Do you believe that your members are actually paying more in carbon tax than they're getting in rebate, in contrast to what the government has said?
I'll start with you, Mr. Kelly, and the CFIB.