Mr. Speaker, I am glad you found the Conservatives hiding behind the curtains there.
I am always amazed at how Conservatives, during their speeches regarding the cost of living crisis, will ignore the elephant in the room. I have been on the agriculture committee, and if we look at the inputs that farmers are dealing with, we see that all of the major corporate sectors have seen record profits over the last number of years. Whether fertilizers, oil and gas, grocery retail, banking or real estate, all of those major corporate sectors have been doing very well. Where has that increase in net profits come from? It comes directly out of the wallets of the hard-working folks right across this country, including my riding of Cowichan—Malahat—Langford. Of course, when corporations unfairly raise those prices and increase those net profits, that is what leads to inflation.
Why is there this willful blindness to not talk about this particular issue? Is it because many of the corporate executives in those sectors making record profits somehow find themselves at Conservative leadership fundraisers?