David Bexte

Madam Speaker, after 11 years of the Liberal government, arbitrary and out-of-control taxation is only making matters worse. This Thanksgiving, Canadian families are paying more just to put food on the table. Dalhousie University estimates that a Thanksgiving turkey dinner will cost 10% more this year. Meanwhile, Canadian farmers, including farmers in Bow River, are facing the most expensive [plus]

Mr. Speaker, the government has made great fanfare of announcements and more announcements. With the future implementation of the legislation, I wonder how the Liberals propose to measure results. What happens when they repeatedly do not deliver?

Long Range Mountains Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, the member for, for sharing her time with me. I truly appreciated the words she had to share with the House. They were fantastic. C-38 Prime Minister It is always an honour to rise on behalf of the people of Bow River. During the debate on Bill, I invited theto Bow River. I asked him to stand in a field in southern Alberta at 10 o'clock at [plus]

Mr. Speaker, that is an interesting question from the member across the way. Should there be no taxation? In an ideal world, there would be none at all. There would be no income tax, no sales tax, no excise tax and no GST. However, we do not live in a world like that. It is not ideal yet, and it may never be, but taxes should be cut to the absolute minimum possible with the smallest possible [plus]

Mr. Speaker, it is about where I come from and what I live. The day-to-day experience of farmers is that every bill is more, and it is more by thousands of dollars, whether it is for the trucker delivering fertilizer, the fertilizer itself, the seed or the feed. It is all of it. Everything is more, and it is thousands of dollars per day, per month and per year. I cannot overestimate how much [plus]

Mr. Speaker, I would have to say there is no such thing as a measured way with unreasonable policies. We get them out of the way. If they are bad policies, we put in good policies. Prime Minister Whether thehas spent some of his life in Alberta or not, I do not think there is a direct connection between that and the understanding of what the lives of a common person and a common family on a [plus]

Mr. Speaker, my esteemed colleague always has a great perspective on the world. The cost cannot be underestimated, and it is so easy to do, because it comes in what seems like small bits, but collectively and adding it up, it compounds into a massive impact on the budget of families and farmers. It is thousands and thousands of dollars in a year coming out of a budget and going to taxes. [plus]

Mr. Speaker, harvest is here, right now, this very moment. Combines, tractors and grain trucks are starting up and pulling into the field. It is go time. Hopes and plans come to the test. Will the weather hold? Will there be a breakdown? What will the prices be? Everything is on the line. It is supposed to be a payday, not a pay more day. Diesel prices are at near record levels in Canada. [plus]

Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are out of touch. They are all talk and no results. Canadian farmers are already paying 32¢ a litre more for diesel than Americans are. Now potential restrictions to U.S. exports threaten to drive costs even higher. Conservatives are calling for an immediate action plan for relief on diesel prices; a cut to all federal taxes; a secure, reliable Canadian supply; and the [plus]

You brought up a good point, Mr. Mueller, in that I don't think the government has a very good measure of the efficiency of the dollars that they spend either. This goes for any government in history, present company not exempted. You bring up a good point, and what I'm trying to get at is that without measuring things, you can't improve them. This is a fairly fundamental notion of systems [plus]

Thank you.

I appreciate that, but that again is the nature of an unintended consequence. We haven't accounted for that. We haven't looked at that specifically to see how we're going to attend to it. I guess it comes down to another question about how you are going to measure success. Are there any particular metrics on current mobility versus new mobility and what happens if we don't reach that target?

Yes. That's from a residential perspective and in terms of your first point about priority for what needs to be done.

I'm going to interrupt a bit. Mr. Mueller, maybe I didn't ask the question well. The entire system we're looking at has a bunch of public dollars and a bunch of private dollars going in to motivate certain behaviours and choices to be made. The value proposition, or the cost-benefit analysis, needs to be positive in order for us to justify continuing any particular program in any particular [plus]

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, witnesses, for joining us today. I appreciate your attendance and hope we will learn a lot. Wow. Where to start? Mr. Mueller, you were speaking about energy performance. I was wondering if you could comment a bit, from the residential experience, on how you propose to measure it.

We're out of time, but I don't think we really resolved the cost impact to the homeowner. Thank you.