Thanks, Jill.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Going back to one of the things that Jill mentioned regarding being price-takers, when you look at the carbon tax.... In other businesses, if your input costs go up, you can pass along your costs to the consumer. However, in the situation we have with producers, they're unable to do that, so it affects them, and they have less capital to invest in their business.
We have one in eight Canadians working in agriculture. There are a lot of different jobs out there. Whether you're in a city riding or a rural area, you have people working on farms. You have agronomists and things like that. You have folks working in financial services who are selling products to farmers. Every dollar that they have to put into their business that they aren't intending to spend is one less dollar they can spend on economic activity to support other Canadian jobs.
Agriculture really matters to everybody, regardless of where you live. That's the message we want to make sure gets taken away from this.