Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming out today. My questions this afternoon will be for Nutrien.
In your opening remarks—and I think this bears repeating here—you said, “the use of fertilizer accounts for approximately 50% of global crop yields. It's critical for growers to meet the continued, growing demand for food, fuel and fibre.” I've farmed all my life and I've been in farm policy all my life, yet I didn't think it was that high—50%.
If we were to reduce any type of fertilizer in our agriculture industries right now, we would start reducing at least 50% of our food production. That's quite an important thing to remember as we talk about how we deal with water and fertilizers. Also, we know fertilizer is needed to grow food and to feed the world.
Can you tell the committee how important water is to fertilizer production?