I know from talking with Philip, in the last Parliament, about one thing that led to Bill C-206. We heard mention of the so-called “harvest from hell”—the really wet harvest that forced a lot of farmers to run their grain dryers overtime. It really ballooned their costs.
The irony, though, is that those extreme wet-weather events are going to become more and more frequent, thanks to climate change. A common refrain we hear at this committee is that farmers are on the front line of climate change.
In the time you took to draft Bill C-234, did you reach out to any of the farmers being impacted in that way and seeing increasing frequency in the use of their grain dryers?