All day long—take the member from Orléans, who talks about how if everyone just got a heat pump and used electricity to power their homes, why, they’d be better off. Is the member from Orléans not aware that dozens of remote and isolated communities rely on diesel fuel, and that heat pumps in places like Kenora don’t actually work when temperatures move beyond minus 20—something that’s going to be happening very quickly?

We’re hard at work to make sure that our northern, remote and isolated communities have affordable, clean energy, but it turns out that old saint Justin gave us a lump of coal during this holiday season. It was only the folks from Atlantic Canada who got relief from that carbon tax.

We moved off coal under the leadership of Premier Harris and other successive governments.

We don’t need coal. We need to scrap the carbon tax.