Mr. Speaker, as I articulated in my intervention, the government has demonstrated the complete opposite of what it promised Canadians. The Prime Minister wrote an open letter to Canadians shortly after his election in 2015. He promised to be a good economic steward of the taxpayer funds. He promised Canadians that the government would be open by default, as well as transparent and accountable.
Let us take a look at what has happened since 2015. It would take me probably another two minutes to outline the numerous scandals, the amount of government waste, the amount of misspent, misused, misappropriated and defrauded taxpayer funds, which I estimate to be well north of $1 billion. That is not exercising the public good, and it is not appropriate. This is why we need a carbon tax election now.