Madam Speaker, according to Food Banks Canada, nearly seven million Canadians are struggling to put food on the table. That is because farmers pay the carbon tax on the food they grow, truckers pay the carbon tax on the food they transport, grocers pay the carbon tax on the food they refrigerate and all of those carbon taxes get passed on to the consumer. Will the Liberal-NDP government cancel its plan to increase its inflationary carbon tax?
In the House of Commons on September 29th, 2023. See this statement in context.