Thanks for the question.
Absolutely. For canola, for example, nitrogen is the second most important input after moisture. If we do not have nitrogen, we cannot grow a canola crop, and canola is a heart-healthy cooking oil. It figures prominently in biofuels, etc., and meal, particularly for animal feed.
As a country, we have not made significant investments in our infrastructure—going back to the 1970s, really—whether it's electrification or the fact, as you noted, that if you're in eastern Canada, the gasoline you're using in your car is probably from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia and not from Alberta. The same issues are certainly true with natural gas and propane, and then you get into fertilizer.
In western Canada, our farms are mostly supplied by western production, with huge amounts of potash coming from Saskatchewan. However, because of the state of our own infrastructure, it's too expensive to move products from western Canada to eastern Canada. It's actually cheaper to import urea, nitrogen and other products from abroad, whether that be from Morocco, Belarus or Russia.
Certainly, Canada is a very fortunate country production-wise, and we have an economic imperative to get our products abroad.