Madam Speaker, we are working on the challenges Canadians face with real solutions. At the current time, inflation is down, interest rates are down, unemployment rates are down and greenhouse gas pollution rates are down. Despite what these climate change-denying Conservatives say, CO2 is not plant food. That absurd Conservative claim that reducing our carbon emissions would somehow be bad for crop growth is straight-up anti-science, disinformation and climate denialism.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We learned that in elementary school. The oil sands are Canada's largest source of industrial carbon emissions, and our pollution cap asks them to invest some of their astonishing $60 billion in profits in innovating and making sure Canadians can afford green, affordable—