Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses.
We had a representative from the Department of Finance here yesterday, and I asked them a similar question. Their response was that to implement a carbon border adjustment and all the administration that goes around that, the costs and the efforts would be intense. We now know that the cost just to administer the carbon tax program is about $83 million. Close to 500 bureaucrats administer that program. We know that the carbon tax is costing farmers about $150,000 on average per farm, with a billion dollars in revenue lost to Canadian farmers by 2030.
Mr. McCann or Mr. White, what would be the cost of a carbon border adjustment in terms of the cost to the farmer and/or the cost to administer in terms of not only dollars, perhaps, but also effort in implementing a program that would be navigable, let's say?