Thank you.
Mr. Lauzon, I think you mentioned several things. One is transportation, and of course we supported and thank you for how quickly you brought back Bill C-8 when you came back to the House. We're also asking for a full costing review on the efficiency cap, and have already talked to the minister about that, as a complement to what's being done in Bill C-8.
On fertilizer prices, let's be clear about one thing. The prices aren't high just because fertilizer companies are running 24/7 and there's a big demand. My guess is they would be high even if there was an abundance of fertilizer, because they've seen grain and oilseed prices going up. They know that farmers are going to pay the price. So there's something there that we need to deal with as well.
There's a further complication in fertilizer prices. I think everybody knows that grains and oilseed farmers have a little more cash from 2007, but they had a deep hole and paid a lot of bills in fall 2007. So if a farmer couldn't afford to buy his fertilizer in the fall because he paid other bills, he will have to wait until the last possible moment in the spring before he buys fertilizer. He's looking at an increase of several hundred dollars a tonne, and natural gas prices have gone down. So that's another dynamic that we somehow have to deal with.