Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Barrie—Innisfil is a source of great wisdom. We need an election today. If any of these NDP-Liberal colleagues go back to their ridings and actually listen to their people, they will hear exactly what we are hearing from not only our friends and neighbours in our ridings, but in their own ridings across the country. Every single member of Parliament here is hearing how badly Canadians want a carbon tax election today and this fall economic statement does provide that opportunity.
I reflect on what the hon. member just said about our NDP colleagues. They must be tormented over there in that caucus. On one side, they have a leader who is so determined to focus on their own pension that they are forfeiting the entire party and its principles for the sake of power, power that not even the former finance minister, the former deputy prime minister of Canada, not the fake deputy prime minister who the NDP leader is, but the deputy prime minister of Canada resigned her cabinet post over. However, the fake deputy prime minister, the NDP leader, is determined to hold onto power. They talk about democracy and freedom in the NDP and Liberal ranks. Here is an opportunity for them to accomplish that. Here is an opportunity for them to have a free vote on the fall economic update and call a carbon tax election that Canadians want today.