Mr. Speaker, my colleague made an eloquent speech, but I would like to ask the member, how long does he think it is going to take? How many years is it going to take before he feels we can lose our dependency on fuel? He would like to change things so that we are not dependent on it anymore, and yet it is well known that this could take years.
In my riding of Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay, a lot of people cannot afford electric cars. They need to drive trucks because they work in agriculture or they work in professions where they need a large car, vehicles that are not even available as electric at this point.
How many years is it going to take, and how many people are going to have to suffer if we do not take the taxes off fuel?