As I said, I'm not trying to make that direct link right now.
Business wants certainty, and as you said right now, it appears we're fairly competitive. GM just shut down their premier plant. It's an award-winning plant. The employees did everything they needed to do. You do have a policy. The American plants are consolidating, and as I said, their job losses are significant—3,600—but to put that in perspective, they're ten times bigger than we are, so that would be like 28,000 jobs in the United States.
You have this unique policy in North America with the carbon tax and the United Nations. Your Prime Minister has been very clear that he believes it is really important. In terms of overall competitiveness in all our agreements, whether Israel or the USMCA, this decision happened just after the USMCA was made. We had the economic update; obviously it wasn't enough to keep this plant viable here in Canada.
The simple question is this: When will you be increasing the carbon tax so that business has certainty for these long-term investments? If you can't provide that today, sir, could you give us the schedule and send it to the committee so we would know how these increases are going to be occurring over the next few years? It's because business does need to know inputs, and this carbon tax is a significant new policy that the Americans and Mexicans don't have.