Madam Speaker, I think that the message is very clear, from both the Conservatives and the Liberals: They want to impose as few regulations and constraints as possible on oil and gas companies. They want to increase oil and gas production, and they want more new pipelines.
The idea of abolishing or weakening industrial carbon pricing would be a major setback. It flies in the face of what we should be doing and what economists are telling us. If the big polluters are not going to pay for pollution-related impacts, then the cost will be passed on to consumers, to Canadians and to Quebeckers. That is what they really want: the oil and gas companies spending less and the public spending more.