Thank you for the question.
From a fertilizer security standpoint, I think eastern Canadian farmers and fertilizer importers play in a global value chain. The difficulty we experienced collectively with the fertilizer sanctions is.... Russia was a very significant, major player until last spring, in terms of Canadian fertilizer imports. One challenge with the tariff is that it hampers our members' and fertilizer importers' ability to successfully negotiate good terms with other global fertilizer players. They fully realize that our negotiating power is significantly hampered when there are particular sanctions on such major producers.
Moving forward, I won't speak for any individual business decision. However, generally speaking, the fertilizer importers bringing product into eastern Canada are looking to source product from other regions of the world. When there are certain issues around negotiating power, anything you can do to make Canadian importers and, directly, farmers more competitive in a global marketplace and not hamper them with sanctions that have an unintended consequence for Canadian farmers is something we bargain for.