I understand all that. What I am telling you is that multi-billion-dollar oil companies don't need public funds to do what they should be doing, in other words, reducing their emissions.
I'm going to give you a third chance.
In the budget, $2.6 billion has been earmarked for carbon capture. I see that you are going to put $384 million towards the emissions reduction fund. Among the companies that will benefit are Suncor, which reported $2.95 billion in net earnings last quarter; Imperial oil, whose profits hit a 30‑year high of $1.17 billion; TC Energy, which turned a profit of $1.1 billion; and Chevron, which managed to quadruple profits last quarter.
You are going to hand over an obscene amount of public funds to those companies, when the middle-class is being bled dry, when truckers, taxi drivers and farmers are being bled dry. It is unlikely that any of them will be able to take vacations this summer as they watch their profits disappear. Meanwhile, you are giving public money to multi-billion-dollar companies.
Can you see how that's obscene?