Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague for Peterborough—Kawartha is right in that Canadians are hurting. There is the price of gas and the price of food, and yet all the Conservatives put up as a solution is to cut the carbon tax. The carbon tax went up 3¢ a litre this year.
There was such a lot of rage farming that I got a lot of calls from my constituents, who did not know that the federal carbon tax does not apply in British Columbia or that it was only going up 3¢. The price of gas had gone up almost a dollar in that time. None of that was due to the carbon tax.
The reason people are hurting, in terms of fuel increases, is because of the greed of the big oil companies. The Conservatives have said absolutely nothing about that in this place.
When are they going to face the facts and tackle the real problem?