Words matter.
My questions are for Minister Vandal.
This is from Nunakput MLA Jackie Jacobson, who recently said, “[W]e're really hurting.... Single mothers are having to choose to buy Pampers or pay their cell bill, or pay their power bill, or pay to buy food, and people are going without.”
I'm going to refer to an article that was done by Cabin Radio not that long ago, on March 30 of this year. It was just a couple of months ago.
You insisted, when interviewed, that federal changes to the carbon tax, which were the subject of extraordinary division in the NWT legislature that week, a few months ago, were “not going to cost any families, anywhere in Canada, any more.”
We know that simply isn't true, Mr. Vandal. We know from the Parliamentary Budget Officer that it varies between provinces from $1,000 all the way up to $4,200 per family. I can only imagine that in the territories it's even worse.
Do you stand by your statement?