Mr. Speaker, as I see it, one thing is perfectly easy to understand. My colleague said that Quebeckers did not participate in the federal carbon pricing system because Quebec has its own carbon exchange and so Quebeckers were not entitled to the rebate. While they may not have been entitled to the rebate, neither were other Canadians, since they did not pay the much-talked-about carbon tax for the period for which they received the cheque. It would be like telling a person who does not pay income tax to expect a tax refund. It does not work that way. It is as simple as that.
The people who paid the full cost of the infamous carbon tax rebate were Quebeckers as a whole. The rebate was not paid out of money from the tax itself. Quebeckers and Canadians paid for it together, and Quebeckers contributed $800 million.
Can the member grasp that, or is the concept too complex for her?