I have to weigh in for a second, on both fronts. It was interesting to hear both of you mention that there are alternatives we could implement that would result in less need for a carbon tax, which is what I think I heard both of you say.
Certainly, as a country, we ought to be exploring every alternative we can to avoid having to tax our already overtaxed population more. I'm going to go to Tyler for a second.
Tyler, you talk about the export dependence of our agricultural communities. My riding is the largest in Canada by population, in Edmonton—Wetaskiwin. I'm hearing significant concerns about the carbon tax right now as it relates to our competitiveness relative to our largest trading partner and neighbour, which has no carbon tax at this point in time. The concern is that if you rob our economy of the revenues that we receive from sales and the taxes that companies pay because of their higher revenues, you actually rob us of our ability to fund the innovations that both of our other witnesses were talking about today. Could you speak to that a little bit?