Mr. Speaker, Saskatchewan is the breadbasket of Canada. We have the food, the fertilizer and the fuel the world needs. After nine years of the carbon tax coalition, something has changed. Parents are skipping meals and mothers are adding water to their children's milk. In fact, between 2019 and 2024, food bank usage in my province increased by 42.1%. The primary causes are the growing cost of housing and food inflation. By 2030, the NDP-Liberals will quadruple the carbon tax, driving up costs on everything even more.
Canadians know the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. They now see what that cost is. Across Canada, 30% of food bank users are children. In Saskatchewan, that number jumps to 39%, which means 39% are children. The “spend-DP” love the carbon tax and voted to keep it 24 times. The result is that taxes are up, costs are up, crime is up and time is up. Canadians want and deserve a carbon tax election so they can kick these champagne socialists to the curb.