I think we saw some well-intentioned seniors arrested on the lawn here last week when they were telling the Prime Minister that his climate plan doesn't go far enough. I don't know if they were arrested, but there were headlines I saw. This kind of thing doesn't go away.
We're a democracy, so we're going to have conversations about policies we should be taking on energy, climate change and climate mitigation. We have choices to make. In our choices right now, we have a southern neighbour that, despite our best efforts and despite the best efforts of all parliamentarians who are in a capacity to go in and have those conversations, is not relenting. That relationship is a tough one.
We need to diversify our trade. We need to look at ways that we can actually build things, export things and sell things. Prosperity doesn't just materialize, and Canadians are hurting. I think industrial carbon pricing is not helping. It is a policy that would better serve in times when we're not in the crunch that we're in right now.
