Yes. What I was talking about earlier today is how fundamentally rural Canada has changed because of the carbon tax.
Back in 2016, I was basically a farm leader at the time. I was president of the Keystone Agriculture Producers. I was around, actually, when Minister McKenna introduced the carbon tax.
We were promised that it was going to be revenue neutral and we weren't going to go beyond $50 a tonne. I'll have to admit that the farmers were leery, but we were trying to give them a chance and see what this new idea was all about.
As we go forward eight years, by increasing the amount of what is the cost to farmers in general, they've basically tripled it. We're up to $65 a tonne right now, and it is really starting to drag on the rural economy. It has fundamentally changed the economic model for agriculture. I don't think people honestly understand what they're doing with that.
We were talking about trying to provide the infrastructure for water today. This is all about landscape management. This is all about protecting the resources in Canada, and we can't do it with this anchor of a carbon tax around our neck in rural Canada.
With that, I close. Thank you.