Similarly, I would find it helpful.... Look, we're not going to freeze the carbon tax and the price on pollution. It doesn't make any sense in the interests of tackling carbon emissions as we need to, as a matter of our obligation to the world and future generations. It makes no sense for us to do that. It's the most economically efficient way of tackling climate change.
If you could instead come back to us.... I did note that in your slide deck there is a piece to say that small businesses pay a disproportionate sum but don't benefit from the rebate proportionately. If you could, again, come back to us with a more elegant solution—freezing is not of interest to me—in relation to maybe taking a share of the revenue and distributing it fairly for small businesses, I would be interested in that, if you can come back to us in writing.
For the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, on the piece on Competition Act reform, I take the concern to be that we're in a difficult inflationary environment and that additional reforms right now may not be welcome if they create greater burdens in regulatory compliance. How do we square that, though, with the fact that we are a country of oligopolies, and oligopolies increase prices for consumers? We've seen that in telecommunications. We see that in grocery stores. We've even seen it in this inflationary environment, where the companies that exist within these oligopolies are profiting despite the inflation. It's not just that prices are increasing; their profits are also increasing at the same time.
How do we square those concerns? On the one hand, I take the concern that you've laid out, but I would turn the concern back by asking, “Don't we want greater competition to drive prices down?”