We will be addressing the technical aspects in the second hour of the meeting, so the vice-president of the Agency is going to be with us longer.
Ms. Bibeau, if I may, I am going to talk to you about the 35% surtax on Russian fertilizers. Once again, the principle is always the same: everyone agrees about helping Ukraine, but we have to do it without hurting ourselves. Canada is the only G7 country that has imposed this tax.
We agree if the government does not want to send the signal that it is cancelling the tax. However, in that case, the money should be sent directly to the producers who paid the tax, because it increases the actual production costs or reduces the profit margins.
The government is telling us that it will rebate the money, but that it will be done through programs rather than directly to the people who paid the tax. Why not rebate the money directly to the people who paid the tax, or simply cancel it?