Thank you, Mr. Jovanovic.
The Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was developed between 2015 and 2018. We followed the basic model of British Columbia's carbon tax. We also looked at what the other provinces and territories in Canada that had carbon pricing were doing.
To my knowledge, a portion of the fuel emissions used in Quebec, related to the cap-and-trade system, can be included. There is no mechanism to remove a portion attributable to agriculture. The federal exemption for eligible farm machinery was already more generous than certain systems and was also as generous as the one in British Columbia. There was a sense of justice...