Madam Speaker, with deep respect to my colleague on the opposition benches, I understand very well the argument the Bloc is trying to make, and I do not agree with the argument. Quebec and the Bloc need to realize that Quebec opted out of the federal backstop when it created its own carbon pricing system at the provincial level. That means that it never contributed fuel charge payments to the federal government and never received rebate cheques.
The federal government decided to continue to rebate the fuel charges collected on behalf of Canadians in provinces that had a federal backstop, so why would we now, all of a sudden, not respect Quebec's autonomy, which it always wants us to do, by providing a rebate payment it did not pay into and a system it opted out of?