I thank my Bloc colleague for understanding the difficulties. The unfortunate part, of course, is that prevention versus reduction in likelihood appears still to be lost on some of my colleagues, especially when they utterly refuse to understand the connection, of course, between prevention and flooding the economy with significant amounts of money. Of course, that has caused 40-year highs in inflation and has caused interest rates to climb precipitously. We're waiting for another interest rate hike, or at least perhaps a stabilization, the very least amount of damage, coming up overnight, I believe, on Wednesday night.
That being said, I think it is important that people begin to understand that their actions have a trickle-down effect. It continues to negatively affect the potential difficulties that Canadians are suffering from. Flooding the economy with money jacks up the inflation rate, which causes Canadians to have less money in their pockets. Then, when you add a punishing and escalating carbon tax on top of that—16¢, and up to 61¢ a litre on gasoline—there is significant relevance there. They need to begin to consider whether they need to continue to vote for carbon tax increases in the future.
We know that the member for Avalon was the only Conservative member who decided to vote against—