Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Just to be clear, this amendment talks about a comprehensive breakdown of costs incurred under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act for each item of food. This refers to the costs of the items.
We know the Liberals don't like looking at numbers. We know, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government, that they don't like looking at the causes of their policies and how they have affected people. You can see why they don't want to support this, because they don't want to step back and do, as it says, a comprehensive breakdown of costs. They are not interested in looking at the causes and being transparent. They don't want to look at the numbers.
We know the carbon tax went up 23% on April 1. We know it's on track to go up 61¢ a litre, and we know that across the entire value chain for food—from the farmer, to transportation, to processing and operations, to transportation again, to warehousing, to retailing—there are costs incurred, and they don't want to analyze this. It's really obvious. They do not want to look into this.
Again, this amendment is to look at a comprehensive breakdown of costs. They don't want to do this. They don't want to look at the numbers. Forget the numbers. They'd rather just have a tag line and have a title. They don't want to break down and look at the causes of how things are affecting people, why the average family's food costs are going up $700 or why food banks and other not-for-profits are struggling because their costs are going up on what they have to buy. They don't want to analyze this. It's really evident that they don't want transparency and that they want to stay away from the numbers. It's more about photo ops.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.