Thank you for that.
Deputy Minister, in the 2021-22 budget, the government announced that your minister's department would fund farmers' purchasing more energy-efficient grain and oilseed dryers. However, my colleagues and I from farm backgrounds, as well as those of us who serve farming ridings, know that farms are businesses and that they operate on very narrow profit margins. Farmers work hard to keep their overhead, capital equipment and borrowing costs as low as possible to avoid eating into those slim profit margins. We've heard some prior testimony at the committee that there is not new technology out there for grain dryers.
I'm just wondering if you can reassure this committee and the farmers who we hear from that the dryer program funding will not require farmers to trigger capital outlays or borrowing costs that will further narrow their profit margins.