Thank you.
This is for whichever witness wishes to respond. If it's all three, that's fine with me.
Thank you very much. I agree with you that climate change is a real, serious and pressing issue. I think that is the consensus in this panel and in this committee. That's not in doubt and not in discussion.
One issue is with regard to what the stakeholders have said to me. Stakeholder after stakeholder has said that they prefer Bill C-206 for a number of reasons. One of the primary ones is that the money is an exemption. It stays in their pocket. It's having a real financial impact. While the credit system may be better than nothing, the idea of it coming to government, coming back, and they don't have the details on it really isn't enough. If the government is so generous and they do a fantastic job with the credit, there's nothing stopping them from repealing Bill C-206 in the future, once they have this credit system up and running.
Wouldn't you want to give the farmers a break with respect to Bill C-206? If it is up to the government's discretion, they can of course repeal it if their credit system is so generous that farmers no longer require the exemption.