Thank you, Chair. You looked very downcast when you said I still had the floor.
To continue the point that I was making before we suspended to have the wording of the motion sent to all members of the committee in both official languages, I think it's time. This timing on a condition on the main motion would offer up the opportunity to send this to the House at the appropriate moment.
We've seen over the summer that costs have gone up for a lot of people. I think that what I heard at the doors, very clearly, both in my riding and also outside my riding when I was door knocking, was that people are just tired of this government and they want to vote it out. They want to have an opportunity to have their say, and I don't see why we should continue to block them from doing that. As the leader of the official opposition has said, the moment that we can, we will move a motion of non-confidence in the government.
You'll note I didn't put that into this as a subamendment, but that would have been quite the motion to send back to the House of Commons to consider. Very simply, you have many premiers now calling for the end of the carbon tax, including a premier whose party was one of the first in Canada to introduce it, Premier David Eby of British Columbia.
I went through British Columbia for about two weeks, backpacking with my kids through southern British Columbia. Yes, costs are really high. That was a complaint I heard again. Many people were just complaining offhand while they were sitting in different restaurants, while they were just walking on the street looking at prices. Now even the Premier of British Columbia is calling for an end to the carbon tax, saying that if there wasn't a backstop in the federal legislation, they would do away with it. The reason he's doing that—it's very obvious—is that there is a provincial election coming to British Columbia and it's so unpopular that he has no chance of being re-elected at this point.
We also, I think, saw a most unusual political situation in British Columbia, where an entire political party collapsed. It used to be called the B.C. Liberals. They did a rebrand. It didn't quite work out, and now they have one force that is behind a carbon tax election as well. That's the wording that they're using as well because, again, the majority of Canadians want to see the abolishment of the carbon tax because it costs a lot of money.
Back home in Alberta, you're talking about thousands of dollars out of everyone's pockets, regardless of the income quartile that they are in, whether they're in the bottom 20% or the top 20%. Everybody is paying more than they used to, and the carbon tax is set to increase April 1. I think by sending this—