Mr. Speaker, the incompetent finance minister would tell us that we should celebrate that, after prices have been rising faster than at any time in 40 years, they continue to rise, just not as quickly. I am sure the people living in tent encampments, the record-smashing two million people lined up at food banks or the one in four kids going to school hungry after nine years of the current government will be celebrating.
What we now find out is that it is worse than we thought. According to a document that was just released, the government's second carbon tax will cost $9 billion in lost GDP. Why would we not have a carbon tax election to decide—