Madam Speaker, I appreciate the commentary by my colleague from Lakeland in Alberta. I love Alberta and visit often. I always enjoy a warm reception when I am there.
There are a couple of things that I take umbrage with in the member's speech, namely, child poverty rates. According to child poverty rates in 2015 when this government took office, Canada was ranked 24th in the OECD and today, thanks to the Canada child benefit, Canada is ranked second. There is more work to be done.
A Calgary-based economist looked into the cost of carbon pricing on a grocery bill. For a family of four, Trevor Tombe found that carbon pricing adds about five dollars to a monthly grocery bill for a family of four in Alberta and two dollars for a family in Ontario. The rhetoric around $4,000 to $6,000 a year from the member, which is false, also ignores the fact that there is a $386 quarterly payment through the climate action incentive, something that the Conservatives never want to acknowledge. That is $1,444 that helps the least-well-off Albertans the most.
The member for Lakeland—