Mr. Speaker, I thought the hon. member's remarks were interesting.
I have a simple question for him. Canada's economy is increasingly based on natural resources. The hon. member himself said that now that it is cost-effective to extract oil from the tar sands, given the price of crude, emerging countries will consume more and more oil. That is not hard to understand.
A question springs to mind: why could Canadians not get preferential rates on gasoline, as we see in Quebec when it comes to the hydroelectricity we use?
It is absurd for very large companies to make substantial profits and for consumers not to get their fair share of all the country's wealth.