“Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank and congratulate my friend and colleague from Joliette—Manawan. I am not an economist, but we saw gas prices drop slightly when the fuel excise tax was abolished only to go back up to where they were before. Could it be that oil companies are pocketing extra profits? We also know that gas prices are rising even though oil from the Strait of Hormuz does not affect us because we get our oil from Canada and the United States. Why are prices rising when our oil is not from sources that have dried up in the Strait of Hormuz?”
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Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 9 wordsI thank my colleague and friend for his question.ThanksClaims · 29 wordsFirst, the price of a barrel follows the global price.When there is trouble in Iran, there could potentially be a shortage of oil to the tune of 20%, 1Reasoning · 16 wordswhich drives up prices, including the prices here, even though extraction costs do not go up.Claims · 46 wordsWhen the excise tax on gasoline was reduced by 10¢, we saw that the price at the pump went down, 2but then continued to go up because of the price per barrel.Refineries here quickly saw their margins increase by 10¢, fully offsetting the excise tax.3Reasoning · 44 wordsThis suggests that refineries and oil companies, which seek to maximize their profits, as my colleague from Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères was saying, saw a window of opportunity there.When the government pulled back, they thought they could charge a higher price and occupy that space.Positioning · 4 wordsIs that the solution?PositioningClaims · 19 wordsThat is what the Liberals did, and that is what the Conservatives are telling us to do even more.Reasoning · 9 wordsIn the end, this mainly helps the oil companies, Claims · 5 wordswhich are making huge profits.Reasoning · 5 wordsThat is not the solution.
