Mr. Speaker, yesterday's report from Stats Canada was nothing to celebrate. It confirmed that income inequality after nine years of the NDP-Liberal government has never been higher. The gap increased by 50% between the richest and poorest Canadians, the highest it has ever been on record.
It has been nine years since the Prime Minister first promised to help the middle class and those working hard to join it. There are now millions of Canadians who will never be able to join the middle class because of their ever-increasing taxes, like the carbon tax.
Why can we not have a carbon tax election where Canadians can decide if they want to quadruple the carbon tax or axe it entirely?