Mr. Speaker, over the last five years, food prices in Canada have increased 37% faster than in the United States. That gap opened after the introduction of the carbon tax, which this government now, with the NDP's help, wants to quadruple. The consequence is that in the last four years, food bank use in Ontario is up 86%, and one in four children go to school hungry, according to this government's own data.
Why will the government not axe this crazy plan to quadruple the carbon tax? In fact, why not axe the tax altogether?