Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present two petitions.
The first petition notes that 52 per cent of the price of gasoline is composed of taxes, that the federal excise tax has increased by 566 per cent in the last 10 years, and that the federal government actually reinvests less than 5 per cent of its fuel tax revenues.
Therefore, the petitioners request that Parliament not increase the federal excise tax on gasoline and strongly consider reallocating its current revenues to rehabilitate Canada's crumbling national highways.