Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to just make a comment and ask another questions. My comment was: it would be good for if our government has gone to the federal government and asked for a complete exemption from carbon tax considering that between ourselves and Nunavut, we probably spend most of the year heating our house. I know that it is August here. I think we are in the middle of August. Our furnaces are on. We are starting now in August, and we are heating our houses until May. That is not normal.
I talked to a guy today who was putting a new fuel tank in my house, and he said to me, he said, "My brother moved to Edmonton, and his total utility bill in Edmonton, where he's got many options of heating his home, is $350 on average," which includes his cable TV. He threw that in. I thought to myself what a difference between what we pay up here and what they pay down south. We are 40,000 people. We are hardly responsible for climate change. We have very little impact on climate change ourselves. Okay? We do our share to reduce, yes, I agree, but I think, per person, we probably produce less greenhouse gases than anybody else, but we are asked to pay more than anyone else. For some reason or other that does not seem fair, and I think that the federal government should be able to see that, as well. What is fair about us being probably the least emitters but we pay the most for carbon tax? I am assuming that Nunavut will pay more, but I wonder if this government would consider, like, we are going to have an election soon, and, if the liberals win, there is going to be a carbon tax, and, if the unthinkable happens and the conservatives win, then we may not have a carbon tax, at all, so this government, I guess, will repeal the carbon tax if it's in place.
I am thinking about that, and I am thinking maybe if we sat down with the government and asked them if we could be exempt in the NWT from the carbon tax totally, at least that share. I mean we cannot do anything about them hauling it. That is true. The Minister is correct in that. I would like to ask the government if they would consider going back to the federal government and asking to have a complete exemption in the NWT. Thank you, Mr. Chair.