Mr. Speaker, I appreciate our hon. colleague for her thoughtfulness. I agree 1,000% with her. It is a bungled sales tax. It is a bungled tax on everything. It is a bungled program. The whole government's program for nine long years has been an absolute mess, so I agree with my hon. colleague on the assumption of her question.
With respect to a carbon tax election, the carbon tax is literally a tax on everything: on gas, on home heating, and on what it takes to grow the food, ship the food and sell the food. It is a tax that immorally punishes the lowest income Canadians disproportionately. The carbon tax is a tax that has had a deleterious effect on our economy and our national life. It has made us less competitive. The carbon tax is the source of much inflationary pressure on our goods and services in the marketplaces across the country today. It is a tax that is breaking people every single winter, especially with the one coming up ahead, with the promise of it quadrupling to 61ยข a litre.
When I hear, as the hon. member mentioned, our friends and neighbours around the country complaining about the costs of everything, the staggering debt that they have to pull themselves through just to be able to get through the next quarter, when I hear the anxiety and the desperation in the voices of our neighbours about how expensive everything is, it is the carbon tax that would lower that price and alleviate pressure on the lowest-income Canadians and unleash our country's economic potential.