Madam Speaker, my hon. colleague for Calgary Centre is really and truly a bright mind in the House; he understands finances, financial structures and how they work, and taxation more than most. He is exactly right: So much of this is virtue signalling without any real results that are tangible for Canadians.
The carbon tax has cost every sector, because every time someone is taxed, for example when the farmer who grows our food is taxed, the trucker who transports our food is taxed and the grocer who puts the food on the shelf is taxed, that affects every Canadian who has to buy the food. It is a multiplying effect that has no genuine benefit to the environment. The whole world is starting to pivot and realize. People are not buying into the schematics anymore; they want practical, tangible results.
The best thing we can do for Planet Earth is to get more Canadian energy on the planet, because we have the best regulations and the best workers, and we produce the best products in the world. We have a good-news story to tell and we need to be telling it. The more Canadian energy we get on the market, the better the planet is going to be.