Yes, and when I listen to the colleagues to my right, I hear that there are a lot of similarities in terms of what attracts investment and innovation. It's really your tax structure and your regulatory burden—they are very similar issues.
Some of our members are local Canadian companies; others are multinationals. Their dollars can move depending on the markets that are attractive in terms of investment. At R and D facilities and plant breeding facilities in Canada, there's a lot of investment and good-paying jobs that should benefit from this type of thing. For farmers themselves, in terms of their costs, some of the equipment they use is as much as half a million to a million dollars per item. If they can write those off more quickly, that should help with innovation and productivity.
This committee is focused on the finance of the country. One thing that's often forgotten is that the agriculture and food sector in Canada is a $150-billion industry. We're talking a lot about critical minerals, defence and other things, but the one thing about agriculture is that farmland will never move to the U.S. or to any other jurisdiction. The farmland is here forever, so if we're able to provide the incentives and the environment, this is an industry that can really—