So this is what I understand: because Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is less present and there are fewer programs to help farmers, farmers themselves have to pay for the costs of adapting and preserving their soil. In addition, there is now a carbon tax. So farmers have to pay twice to try to preserve their soil for the long term. That is my perception, in short.
Thank you very much, Mr. Sauchyn.
I will now address Mr. Rood.
I think that Mr. Barlow was very happy to see the images you showed at the beginning of your presentation.
I'd like to go back to a point you made in your presentation. You said that “cultivation, not pipelines or oil sands, has the biggest impact on the environment [...]”. However, you also said that the situation presents opportunities. I did not understand, unfortunately, what those opportunities are for agriculture. Could you expand on that? I think this could be interesting.
I know that the environment and the preservation of soils has always been at the heart of farmers' concerns. I'd like to know what the opportunities are for them, specifically.