In our request, we would go beyond having a pause. With regard to the carbon tax on farms, if you have a look at the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, APAS—the president is Todd Lewis—you'll see they've done some fantastic number-crunching. They came out with numbers showing that the carbon tax will mean an $8,000 loss per farm family.
What they're being taxed on, as you rightly point out, are activities that are not optional. If you're going to grow grain and you're going to store it and send it to market, if you don't dry the moisture out of it, it will simply rot in storage. It's not something that's optional. It's not as though you're going to increase efficiencies. There's been a lot of work done on efficiencies. It's just simply that the tax is wrong for agriculture. It needs to be removed entirely. We would support a pause or we would support just removing it completely. That would be even better.
I want to point out that you make the great point that agriculture is critical. Not only is it critical for our food security, but it's also going to be a key player in how we recover from all this. When we come out and the dust settles on COVID, agriculture and agri-food are going to be one huge opportunity for return on investment. Anything we spend right now or put in the hands of farmers is really going to pay off in spades when we're through this.