Thank you so much, Chair.
Mr. Green, maybe I'll start with you. I very much agree with you that carbon pricing is there to send a powerful signal that we need to change our ways and that it creates an incentive to find a less costly and ultimately less polluting way for people to operate in their lives. It has worked for me. I moved to an electric vehicle, and I'm already celebrating the reduced gasoline costs from that purchase each and every month.
I guess the problem I've had is that, in terms of the alternatives, your testimony has been refuted by farmers who actually dry their grain. If we're trying to incentivize farmers into alternatives, I agree that's a very worthy goal, but right now, for farmers who dry tonnes and tonnes of grain every year.... I did reference the biomass system that exists, and they said they're not really aware of that, and they're not sure that it can be scaled up to the level they actually need. It would also require them to take the crop residue off their fields each year, which would be an additional cost, but it would also rob their fields of that important carbon content that is needed to feed next year's crops.
I know that you've had versions of this question from my colleagues, but if there are no viable alternatives at this moment—this is what we're hearing first-hand from farmers—wouldn't Bill C-206 serve a useful purpose in giving them a financial break in the meantime, until these technologies come into existence?