Madam Speaker, yes, all boats can rise with the tide, but they can all sink with it too.
Given what the Liberals are doing with the capital gains tax increase, let us look at what they have done for farmers in nine years.
The Liberals are raising taxes by 30% on farmers. That will not make farmers better off. They are hammering them with the carbon tax, which will be quadrupling very soon. Farmers will be paying tens of thousands of dollars every single year and will not get it back from the government's phony rebate program.
The Liberals have looked at trying to label beef as unhealthy. They were warned in advance and did not even bother to put in an application to get the BSE designation for Canada removed when they had the opportunity to do so a couple of years ago.
The fuel regulations the Liberals will be implementing will be detrimental to farmers. Farmers will be paying a higher tax rate because of the fuel regulations. We can also look at the way the Liberals have been posturing around fertilizer reductions and what they are trying to do with that.
The Liberals have done nothing but assault Canadian farmers and Canadian producers, when they are the ones who are tasked with feeding the world. The track record—