Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to juxtapose two records. On the one hand, Loblaws is making a million dollars a day more in profit than in its historical banner year. It's not a million dollars in profit every day. It's a million more dollars in profit against its most profitable year to date.
We also have a position where more Canadians than ever are using food banks. In that context, your government has chosen to limit its Canada recovery dividend, or windfall tax, which is the term others might use for that, only to the financial sector, when we've seen some other international jurisdictions apply windfall taxes on a more broad base, and despite the fact that you have a working partner in Parliament that would be willing to work with you in order to implement a wider windfall tax.
On what principle has the government decided not to take a wider approach to applying a windfall tax, when we know there are businesses making a lot of extra profit on the very essentials that Canadians are having a harder time affording?