Mr. Speaker. Persistence pays. There are two things that are very clear as a result of tonight's debate. First, both the revenue minister and the industry minister have indicated clearly that they are pretty happy with the high fuel prices and that they have no problem with that.
Furthermore, under access to information about a year ago, the Conservative Party found a document, which I believe has now been put on the Department of the Environment web page, in which the government said it would like to see gasoline prices up around $1.40 a litre. It is very close to that. From what the ministers said tonight and from what was in the document that the Conservative Party received under access to information, and we have talked about this in the past, the government likes the high gasoline prices.
The second thing is the government likes tax and high tax. It has refused to do the one thing it really can do, which is to reduce the tax component of fuel. That is very clear from not only tonight's debate, but from the action from the government over the past months and years.
What I found in my constituency—