Thank you, everybody.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
A National Post article came out today, which we heard about in the House. It said, “Ontario Indigenous group seeks judicial review of carbon tax”, and it went on to say:
An Ontario Indigenous group has launched a legal challenge against the Liberals' carbon tax, arguing it discriminates against people who live on reserve.
Grand Chief Abram Benedict, who holds the group’s environment portfolio and is also Grand Chief of Akwesasne....
“The government has boasted that Canadians will pay a carbon tax, but through the rebates, through the subsidies they will actually receive more than...they have paid. That doesn't ring true in First Nations communities,” he said.
In the court filing, the group argues that technologies like electric vehicles or heat pumps are not only unavailable, but unworkable in many Indigenous communities....
Benedict said his group has been talking to the government about changes to the carbon tax regime for some time—