Thank you, Pierre.
Basically the COVID measures do not work for the farmers, and I would say this would be for all farmers in Canada. That is because we do not qualify as small businesses. Farms have a lot of capital investments and machinery. We're not small businesses that way. Also, we have a lot of workers. Because of those two criteria that are within the small business programs, we are not qualifying for anything.
I have to explain to the committee that we are also not qualifying for any of the agriculture programs. It's not just mushrooms. There are some serious problems with the agriculture suite of programs that exist currently. Unless the parameters are fixed—and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture explained how they need to be fixed—then we cannot access any funding, either, through the agriculture programs.
Those are our two issues. We have no access to any funding right now. That's why we're asking for this committee's help to get this fixed.
Now I'm going to hand it back to Ryan to talk about the carbon tax.