Thank you, Madam Chair.
What I think is particularly contemptible is the attempts by Liberal members and this Liberal government to say that His Majesty's loyal opposition.... Opposing things is an act of loyalty, if we see something bad in a particular piece of legislation, which we do in this legislation.
What my friend probably doesn't understand is what the effect of carbon leakage is. Carbon leakage would mean that Ukraine could not have a carbon tax or a carbon price so low as to attract investment, because that's considered carbon leakage. It's a company choosing to invest in Ukraine because its carbon tax or carbon price is too low. That's how it's defined.
What Ukraine has is a tiny carbon price on select industries. It does not have a broad-based carbon tax like the punishing carbon tax this Prime Minister has imposed on Canada. It's a carbon tax he intends to quadruple as 800,000 Ontarians go to a food bank. That would be the fourth-largest city in Ontario—a city entirely dependent on going to a food bank for food. That's what carbon taxes do, Madam Chair. That's what they're doing to Canada.
These Liberal members suggest that our objection to that is somehow not supporting Ukraine. Quite frankly, it's despicable, because this Liberal government granted an export permit waiver for a gas turbine to be exported and to be used to pump Russian gas. Let that sink in for a minute, everyone. To the folks in the media who are here today, you should report on this. They allowed a gas turbine to go to help pump Russian gas. What does Russia use to fund its illegal war in Ukraine? It's the sale of gas and the profits from the sale of gas.
The Liberals granted the permit and they have the audacity to sit here and say that us voting against this agreement, which has now passed out of committee, is somehow betraying Ukraine. No. Giving Russia a gas turbine betrayed Ukraine.
Do you know what's worse? We now have a report that came out yesterday, saying that Canadian detonators are being used in Russian land mines. That's right. The government is so inept and incompetent in applying sanctions that Canadian detonators are finding their way into Russian land mines. Do you know what Russian land mines do? They kill Ukrainian soldiers. If you want to talk about what's actually harming Ukraine, it's the incompetence of this government. It's absolutely shameful, despicable incompetence.
To then try to come to the House of Commons and the committee to suggest that our vote, which did nothing.... Guess what? It got to committee, and it just got out of committee. It's causing no harm whatsoever.
We get to oppose bad pieces of legislation. We get to oppose your ideological obsession with carbon taxes, carbon prices and the absolute misery they've imposed on Canadians. Canadians are skipping meals because of the carbon tax. Farmers are being beaten into submission because of the carbon tax. There are farmers who are paying $10,000, $20,000 or $30,000 a month in carbon taxes. That gets passed on to Canadian consumers.
Guess what? Our vote is not doing anything to harm Ukraine. We are principally opposed to you guys ramming in this terminology for the first time ever in a trade agreement. That's what we object to. We get to object to that. That does not cause a scintilla of harm to Ukraine. Do you know what does? It's giving Russia a bloody gas turbine and detonators used in land mines.
You guys should all watch what you say, because your behaviour on this is despicable and you don't have a leg to stand on.
Thank you, Madam Chair.