Thank you, Mr. Chair
Thank you to our departmental witnesses for engaging with us on this study.
I'm not sure if Mr. Parry or Mr. Moffet will be best suited to answer a question regarding the soil organic carbon change indicator. It is on AAFC's website, and the last data that we have is 10 years old.
I want to know about the progress being made on that and about some of the methodology that you're using, because if we want to know where we're going, we have to know where we're at currently.
I know Canada is a very regional country. Our agricultural soils are very different, depending what region you're in, but is there a sense of just how much carbon our soils can absorb on a per-hectare basis in different regions? Is there a maximum amount? How much carbon generally do you think our soils are capable of taking out of the atmosphere through these beneficial farming practices?