Yes, I tend to agree with that.
I've spent many hours, many evenings, going around talking to various farmers. I think I must have been at over 100 farmer meetings. Our model was very constituency based, so I wanted to get on the ground to talk directly to farmers and show them....
Of course, as you know, Alberta was not about more taxes. They wanted to know how a market-based system could benefit them and generate another revenue stream. The large final emitters that I was negotiating with also wanted to know how they could participate in this new market that Premier Ed Stelmach at the time had put together, but they wanted to mitigate their risk. That was their main concern.
We were the go-between, between the farmers who generated, like you said, an additional carbon sink because of their good practices, and the larger final emitters who wanted to have a compliance credit that they could take to the marketplace in exchange for their over-the-limit carbon emissions.