Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In 1981, I was attending elementary school. I was in grade one. There was no gas tax at that time, and there were times when my friends had nothing in their lunch boxes to eat. So constantly saying that the carbon tax is the only thing to blame for the rising cost of goods and services, and even of groceries, is totally unacceptable.
The school food program we want to create right now and the framework I want to put in place are intended precisely to help children achieve their full potential in school. It is not reasonable, in 2024, for Canada to be one of the few countries that has not established a school food program—