Yes, we actually were concerned, but we gave him that courtesy.
I was speaking about British Columbia, the carbon tax and how interesting it is to me that the birthplace of the carbon tax in Canada actually has now said that it would rather do something different. It has recognized that the carbon tax is actually a problem. It's a little ironic because, as we all know, there's an election happening in British Columbia. It's ironic that the NDP no less would suggest that the carbon tax is a bad thing.
It proves a couple of things. It proves that the carbon tax is in fact a very bad tax. It costs everybody a lot of money. It makes life very expensive. It makes everything unaffordable, and it actually doesn't help the environment.
I think we can learn also from this that people actually can learn and evolve in their thinking. I'm encouraged, I guess, that even an NDP premier and an NDP government can actually see the light and understand that maybe there are other ways to accomplish things. Sometimes you get your head so buried in one particular issue that you forget about that. That's what the carbon tax has become for the NDP. It has become a huge liability and I just find that interesting.
That's why in many places across Canada—I think every province now—and pretty much anywhere you go to speak, you will find many people who are very much struggling with the carbon tax and very interested in having a say and in having a chance to speak to it through an election to tell the Government of Canada what they think about a carbon tax.
I'm pretty confident that I know the answer to that question, but the only way to know for sure is to have a carbon tax election. That's why we have this subamendment that we would add to this motion that would say to report this to the House, “and after a carbon tax election is held so that Canadians and Québécois can vote out this tired, out-of-time NDP-Liberal coalition government”.
As I said, this is what I'm hearing from people. This is what people want to see.
With that, I will end my time and we can move on to the next speaker on the list.
Thank you.