It's the same for mushroom farms as it is for greenhouses, chicken barns and all livestock barns. We have to heat the barns in the winter, because of Canada's cold weather. We get no exemptions for the cost of all the gas that we use to heat the barns. The carbon tax is increasing at its regular times, and it's very expensive. Our farmers have submitted invoices showing the cost of the carbon tax.
I am going to be sending a submission based on my comments, and other additional information we didn't get to, on the issues we're having with work permits and housing, but I can also include the costs, because we have figured them out. They're astronomical, and they're getting larger and larger. It's adding to the inflationary costs. It is also not just the gas for the farm. There's an added cost within the supply chain. We know it's adding to the price of food, because the price goes up for the trucker, the farm where the fertilizer is coming from and all of the inputs on which there's a carbon tax.
It is very much cumulative, and the farmers are feeling it. They have to absorb all these costs.