Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I was close to the business of hauling fuel into small community as the Minister of Public Works in the last government. A large cost of heating fuel was the hauling of the heating fuel. In addition to that large cost of hauling the heating fuel, sometimes they get a pretty good price buying, I think it is called purchasing off the rack or something. I can't remember the exact term. The hauling of it, the transportation of the diesel fuel was substantial.
I wonder, if we are going to rebate heating fuel at the point it is purchased, each of us, if we are on Facebook, we have Facebook friends. A lot of those guys are saying that this portion of the tax where it is rebated at the pumps or rebated at purchase is not going to be that substantial of a savings because it costs so much to haul it. If we were hauling to Yellowknife, it is a cost, but then we have to haul it from Yellowknife, also. It is okay to haul it to Hay River, but then we have to barge it from Hay River, also. The hauling, the barging, and we are barging it ourselves, I am pretty sure, through MTS. I would like to ask the government or the Minister if there is any consideration for rebating that cost, as well.
We purchase heating fuel, and then there is going to be a carbon tax on it because everybody is in a carbon tax mode. Then we pay for the haul to Hay River, and then there is going to be a carbon tax on the engines that are going to haul it to Hay River. Is there going to be a continuous carbon tax on the transportation of that fuel from Hay River to the point where it is delivered to the small communities? Thank you.