Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for their testimony.
I'll begin with you, Dr. Lee. Last spring you testified to this committee that StatsCan evidence—this has come up already—described increases in diesel fuel, fertilizer, crop protection products and trucking costs. In my discussions with industry, I'm going to add packaging costs and interest costs to that list of costs that are hitting the industry. One of those things, interest costs, is not like the rest. I think it's the only one of those cost components that is not attracting a carbon tax.
To move forward on food affordability, Dr. Lee, given the discussion earlier on the success of the carbon tax, should we remove the carbon tax from the other four or add it to interest costs somehow and fabricate some carbon in that component?