Mr. Speaker, people who want to play politics with an issue that is very important to Canadians will learn very quickly, and to read the same answer or statement that a member gave before verbatim and put words in somebody else's mouth, there is absolutely no truth whatsoever.
In fact, the Government of Canada is also one of the largest consumers of petroleum products. Higher commodity prices are going to also cost the government, which means our costs to provide those services go up. There is no advantage to the Government of Canada. As a matter of fact, because the federal excise tax is on a per litre basis, higher prices do not generate any more federal excise tax.