Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Singh, for being here.
You spoke a lot in your opening, obviously, about food prices. It's a main driver of this initiative. However, over nine years, the NDP has voted for every single budget that Justin Trudeau has put forward, and Canadians are more miserable and hungrier than ever. For example, lettuce is up 94% in that time, onions 69% and cabbage 70%—since your deal with the Liberals. A Dalhousie study by “The Food Professor”, as he calls himself, shows that carbon taxes are increasing wholesale food prices by 34%.
My question is simple: Will you finally admit that carbon taxes increase the price of food?