Thank you, Chair.
I was listening to your exchange with Mr. Drouin. We live in a place and time where you can both be right. Mr. Drouin has a point in recognizing where we have to go as a world and that every sector has to do their part, including farmers, and they are.
You can be right in recognizing that farmers, right now, do have these costs, and they don't have alternative options. This is what I see as a bridge benefit, and something that's going to allow them to respond to some of these unexpected costs. If we do get another really wet fall, and farmers are having to dry their grain, that's going to be a cost that they just can't escape.
I know you don't have a lot time to give me an answer, but you said you would be open to an amendment to your bill that would cover barn heating. I live in a part of Canada where we don't have brutally cold weather like they do on the Prairies. I can only imagine what the costs are to keep an animal barn heated, so that the animals aren't freezing to death. You may not be able to give me the answer right now, but would you be able to submit to the committee what your proposed amending language would be for us to consider?