Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, colleagues.
Certainly when the government uses revenue from Canadians from the carbon tax in the budget and Canadians can't actually see the direct line between the cash grab that the government takes through the carbon tax and the innovation or technology or new sources of energy.... In fact, the outcome of this government is anti-resource development, anti-energy, and holding Canada back from being able to provide the products and the technologies needed for our own self-sufficiency and for allies around the world.
Questions about the carbon tax and its revenue and whether or not it's worth the cost are certainly relevant, so thanks, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the interventions from the other opposition.
Minister, the reality is that the carbon tax is at $80 per tonne right now. Your plan is to hike it to $170 per tonne by 2030, in less than six years. It's really important for Canadians to know that this is your plan, given the affordability crisis that Canadians face right now due to your inflationary spending that has also hiked interest rates, along with all of the taxes and added costs that you are putting on resource developers, on farmers and on all kinds of industrial development. These dampen the economy and also increase the price of everything for every Canadian, just as the carbon tax was designed to do.
Your plan is to double the carbon tax in less than six years. Will that stop the forest fires and wildfires that you mentioned at the beginning of your remarks? How high does it have to go?