Mr. Chair, I want to start from a premise put forward by Mr. Warawa, who makes a pretty good case. My comments are mainly aimed at the representatives from the agricultural sector.
Our population is increasing dramatically, as is our consumption, to the point that we have more livestock operations in Canada and an increase in fertilizer use. That is probably why 53% of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada's agricultural sector come from livestock production. So our methods have to change. And we have two tools to do that: regulations and taxation. We could adopt taxation measures.
I know that I am treading on dangerous ground here, but I want to hear your thoughts on environmental conditionality in agriculture, in other words, making support measures in agriculture conditional on good farming practices. For instance, if a farmer opted to use solid manure over liquid manure, it would reduce methane emissions. We could establish measures to deal with manure and promote biomass energy in the agricultural sector.
Would you be in favour of taxation measures that are based on the principle of environmental conditionality with respect to funding for the agricultural sector?