Mr. Speaker, in May 2015, the Conservative government set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Those targets are exactly the same as the ones set out in the Paris agreement. That is why we are in favour of the Paris agreement. However, we are opposed to the Liberals' approach, which involves inventing, creating, and imposing, and that is the verb used by the Prime Minister, a new tax. That is not the right way to go about things.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has indicated that this tax will cost each Canadian family thousands of dollars.
The question is simple: does the government have the numbers? Does it know how much creating and imposing this new tax will cost families?