I think the easy answer is yes. The one thing about carbon tax is that rural Canadians and farmers pay disproportionately more in tax. For those who live in an urban setting, when they walk out the door to go to the grocery store, they have two choices. They can get in the car and drive and choose to pay the carbon tax, or they can go down the street and get onto public transit.
We don't have that option. We have to drive everywhere, so we're paying disproportionately more. From a farming perspective, everyone who gets charged a carbon tax for a service they provide or whatever the case may be puts that added cost onto the products they're selling to the public. Farmers are price-takers, not price-setters. We don't have the luxury of passing that cost on, so we get piled on by more and more service charges, which narrows our margins even more.
It would be a definite boost, especially if Bill C-234 gets through and you could put the push on the Senate to get this through committee quickly, especially on a couple of senators who are holding this up. We'd really appreciate it.