Mr. Speaker, I apologize to the member for Timmins—James Bay for needing to hear me, yet again, speak in the House.
I have four petitions that I would like to raise.
The first is with respect to the carbon tax. The petitioners express their profound frustration that in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and all the fiscal and other challenges people are facing, the government would announce the decision to dramatically hike the carbon tax. They note that the carbon tax is not an effective way of responding to the environmental challenges that we face.
The petitioners call on the government to repeal the decision to increase the federal carbon tax to $170 per tonne. They also call for having the carbon tax shown as a separate expense when buying products, so citizens are aware of exactly how much money they are paying in carbon tax at a given time.