Thank you.
Thank you, all, for being here. I'm going to start with Mr. Larkin.
It's good to see you again. It was only yesterday or the day before, I think, that we met and had a conversation about this.
I think it was you who mentioned the increasing complexity of the tax structures. I think the government brought in this change to the capital gains to try to capture some of the income that other—I'm not talking about farmers here—groups, other individuals and corporations, who were using that capital gains benefit...because really, it's a benefit because you're only getting taxed on half your income. They wanted to try to capture more of that and make that less of an easy win for wealthy individuals or corporations.
By making that increase, you have farmers caught in the crossfire. They're innocent bystanders who are seemingly caught up in this, even though they're not part of that group that are trying to get around paying their fair share of taxes. The government increases the complexity of all this to try to do this. I know your solution is to make it less complex, to kind of go back to where we were, but then we would lose the benefits as a Canadian society in trying to make the wealthy pay their fair share.
I'm just wondering if there's a solution that would increase the complexity even more by excluding farmers from this, especially family farmers. I don't know how that would work or how it would be structured, but is that a possible solution here? If so, how might that work?