Thank you, Chair. I appreciate it.
I'll start my questions with the CFIB. One of the motivations for having a carbon tax, which is laudable, is to encourage and incentivize farmers to take actions that will reduce their carbon footprint.
Given the fact that there aren't any viable alternatives, and we've had considerable testimony on that, and the precarious state that farmers are often debt-laden and price-takers, is there, in your opinion from the numbers and from talking to farmers, the possibility at least that a raise in the carbon tax to $170 per tonne could cause some farmers to go out of business, particularly small family-held farms?