Mr. Speaker, rural Canadians are faced with skyrocketing prices for gasoline and home heating oil. It hurts those who can least afford it. It hurts those on fixed incomes and it hurts our seniors. Loggers, tourist operators, farmers and fishermen will be faced with a cash crunch.
The Conservatives betrayed these people in the last election by promising them a 2¢ a litre break that never happened.
Why is the government giving a corporate tax break to big oil companies instead of giving a break to rural Canadians?