Madam Speaker, at the very least, to say there is a 34% increase in grocery prices because of the carbon tax is absolutely ridiculous. I would love to see a substantiation of that. The Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Governor of the Bank of Canada are saying something dramatically different than what the member just finished saying.
Having said that, can the member explain to those following the debate why Erin O'Toole and his Conservative candidates, including the member opposite, had an election platform that said they supported the price on pollution, the carbon tax that they are now opposing? Why was the Conservative Party so poorly misled? Who misled them? What caused the Conservatives to change their minds? Was it the extreme right?