Mr. Speaker, one thing I am not hearing enough about today is the cost to taxpayers for natural disasters that are a result of climate change. We have seen record numbers of forest fires. We have seen floods like we have never seen before, which the PBO has projected will cost about $5 billion a year, or more, by 2020. There have been even worse years recently.
Municipalities are trying to brace themselves by building infrastructure or preparing for more forest fires coming down the pipe, but we are not hearing a sense of urgency from the Conservatives. We are not hearing how they are going to deal with these issues and protect middle-class Canadians. Of course, this tax, and being tax-prudent, is protecting taxpayers, because they are the ones who are going to pick up the tab for these disasters.
We have seen solutions. We have seen them in countries like Sweden, which has lowered emissions by 25% through carbon tax initiatives, and it has grown its GDP by 69%, all since 1990. We have gone in the other direction.
I would like to hear more about the answers and about tax prudence in terms of the impacts of climate change on taxpayers.