Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member in recognizing that there is an affordability crisis and that Canadians need relief.
It would certainly provide a lot of relief to almost every single Canadian family to have the price of gas reduced by the amount of taxes being charged by the Liberal government. We cannot control global oil prices, so those profits with the oil companies would be there. However, they are also going to generate a lot of corporate taxes to the federal government, which would offset the loss from reducing the excise tax, the GST and the industrial carbon tax on the price of fuel.
Would the member agree with me that this would be a good start?