Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the department for being here.
It is interesting that this study was put forward by the government, but the officials weren't ready to talk about this last week. I'm a bit concerned that this is potentially a policy the government wants to look at implementing but wasn't ready to even discuss at committee.
Mr. Rosser, I'll go to your comments first.
You talked about global emissions from agriculture being 30% globally. Canada makes up 1.6% of global emissions, and agriculture makes up about 10% of that. That's what you said. That's your number of our own emissions. We are certainly much lower than the global average when it comes to agriculture.
When it comes to our competitiveness in the agriculture sector, in so much of what we do, we rely on international trade and trade access to other jurisdictions. In your opinion, what would implementing a carbon border adjustment on agricultural products do to Canada's competitiveness, when we're already far exceeding other global jurisdictions when it comes to emissions and our environmental accomplishments?