Mr. Speaker, my province is known globally for its environmental stewardship and innovation, and we made a difference at the last COP convention. Much of our stewardship and innovation was practised and perfected long before the Prime Minister took power or before carbon tax was even on the table. We are consistently ahead of the curve and have made the investments and sacrifices to show for it. We will continue, but the carbon tax is not required.
Middle-class Canadians are losing ground, and people wishing to join the middle class have no confidence that the NDP-Liberal coalition will ever get them there. It is no wonder the Prime Minister's numbers have plummeted, but it is not that simple; every single member of the Liberal party and of every other party in the House but ours is complicit in the despair we see across this country.
It is time for the NDP to accept responsibility for its hand in the carbon tax catastrophe, and it is time to allow Canadians to vote in the carbon tax election so they can select a common-sense Conservative government that will axe the tax once and for all.