I'll have to talk really fast.
Thanks very much to the minister for being here. Since I joined the committee earlier this year, it's the first time we've had this opportunity.
I met with chicken farmers earlier this week, and they reminded me of how many jobs they support in the country—more than the oil and gas industry does—and how much they pay in taxes, which is $1.3 billion. One of the things they were very concerned about with Bill C-30 and the bottlenecks that have emerged is that they tend to get passed by when it comes to production for feedstocks for chickens. They've had to move a lot of their purchasing and shipping of feedstocks onto trucks, which they estimate costs them an average of about $40 per tonne. With feed making up over half their costs, this is a significant burden being passed over to the chicken farmers.
They're wondering when this will get resolved and whether that will be soon enough to actually save them from very serious costs.