Thank you very much, Chair.
This amendment is saying that this report “must include a comprehensive breakdown of costs incurred under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, for each item of food provided under the school food program.” I think that's important also.
Just to break this down, there are families out there now at this time of year that are budgeting to see if they can go on a summer vacation, if they can take their kids to the lake, if they can go camping and if they can do these things. They're sitting down and having these conversations before they spend the money. They're literally making the plan to see if it can work.
This type of behaviour is expected of businesses. In order for a business to actually stay afloat, they have to know what their incurred costs are and what their projected expenses will be to know if they can stay in business or not.
This is the same with families. There are so many families that are having these very difficult, stressed conversations, which are then actually affecting the children, because they're carrying around this weight that their parents can't pay the bills. They hear them arguing about this. They hear the stress of, “Oh, we can't have that. We can't do this. We can't afford it.”
I would, at minimum, expect government to have the same thoughtful planning in this. At the end of the day, we already know that this NDP-Liberal government has riddled the next generations with debt. We know that. We know that my children and their children's children are going to be paying the debt that the NDP-Liberal government has incurred.
I would just think that, at minimum—especially for these kids—in the framework we would have a projection. The ironic part of this is who is going to be paying for it. It's the kids who are getting the food.
At a minimum, I just don't see why we wouldn't have this reporting in there, unless this NDP-Liberal government wants to continue covering up scandals and covering up where money goes.