Thank you so much, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for helping to guide this committee on this journey with Bill C-206.
It appears to me from reading budget 2021 that the government actually paid Mr. Lawrence a big compliment by devoting a good section to the costs of grain drying, with $100 million in refunds in that first year, and also by devoting $50 million specifically for more efficient grain dryers.
My first question is for the Grain Growers of Canada. I really want to dig down into what alternatives to propane and natural gas are available.
I've been looking on the Internet and there is a company called Triple Green Products that has a BioDryAir dryer, which uses crop residue as a fuel to help dry their grain. They're exempt from the carbon tax because they're using residue that comes from their own farm. Is this a viable technology? Is this the kind of place we want to start investing that $50 million in trying to find that efficiency? If we leave the carbon tax aside, farmers are still paying a lot of money just for the propane and natural gas itself. I just want to find out from you where this technology will go in five to 10 years from now.