Mr. Speaker, since January, the profit margin of oil companies at the refining level has increased from 6¢ to 12¢ per litre, thus demonstrating that the lack of competition between oil companies is a significant factor in the skyrocketing increase in the price of a litre of gas at the pump. Profits at the refining level have increased 100% in one month, and this is definitely no coincidence.
Will the Minister of Industry put an end to his complicity with the oil companies by saying that there is no collusion between these companies, and will he do what the public expects him to do, which is to use his authority to demand that the Competition Bureau, which is accountable to the minister, look into this?