Mr. Speaker, maybe farmers can call up CRA and say the carbon tax on farm equipment and fertilizer is imaginary, or maybe they can write imaginary cheques to pay for them.
It is not just the industrial carbon tax that is driving up food prices; it is also the Liberal fuel standard. When truckers take the food from farms to factories to grocery stores, they cannot tell the Canada Revenue Agency that those taxes are imaginary. They have to pay that extra 17¢ a litre.
To help bring prices down for working Canadians, why not scrap the fuel standards that are driving up food costs?