Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for that question because it highlights the fact that in our region, agriculture makes up a large part of our GDP. As we know, most agriculture commodities are priced globally, on the global market.
Just south of both of our constituencies is the United States. They also share the same region as we do. They produce the same crops and have the same industries, but they are not paying a carbon tax. We have about a 40% higher cost of production than my neighbours do in the States. This is a self-imposed harm that the Liberal government has put on the people in my constituency for the past 10 years. It was a carbon tax that we never asked for and did not want, and it did not work. I am so happy that the Liberals removed it.
The next thing they should do is take off the industrial carbon tax, because that affects all of our inputs, all of our crop supplies and is something that really hurts our industries.