Thank you very much.
The point I'm making—and I do appreciate my Liberal colleagues' listening intently to my commentary, and I will, for their sake, distill this down to the relevance. As I said, I've seen media reports on, I believe, four premiers who have written to the finance committee asking to talk to it about the impending increase in the carbon tax. Thus, the emergency is that on April 1 it will go up by 23%. We've heard testimony today from the Parliamentary Budget Officer that it increases the cost of food and that, on average, a family in Ontario, Alberta or anywhere else the backstop applies will be out money, in some cases thousands of dollars.
Right from the PBO's report we know that the fiscal and economic net loss in Alberta for the average household is $911. In Saskatchewan it's $525. In Manitoba it's $502. In my beautiful province of Ontario it's $627. In Nova Scotia it's $537. In Prince Edward Island it's $550. In Newfoundland and Labrador it's $377. We're in an affordability crisis. People are barely getting by, and I guarantee you that every one of the MPs here has gotten emails, letters or calls from distressed constituents who are finding it difficult to get by.