Madam Speaker, for years, the Liberals insisted their carbon tax was working, claiming eight out of 10 Canadians were better off because of the rebate, even as families struggled with soaring food, fuel and heating costs. Now, with no budget and no plan, they have scrapped their own policy, which took more money out of the pockets of Canadians, and have stolen the Conservative plan to axe the tax, pretending it was theirs all along. Just yesterday, a member opposite said that a federal budget has no value.
If the Liberal government spent years defending a tax that made life more expensive and now claims a budget has no value, how can Canadians trust it to deliver anything but higher costs, less transparency, less accountability—