Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the welcome and look forward to the discussion.
Mr. Carey, it's good to see you again. I appreciate your insights. I also want to first congratulate you on co-chairing the newly formed Agriculture Carbon Alliance. I think that is an excellent initiative and certainly well-timed, as I think it's an opportunity for us to highlight the incredible work that agriculture has done in sustainability and in protecting our environment over the last few decades. I am hopeful that we'll see some great work come out of that alliance.
In your presentation, Mr. Carey, you were talking about the importance of competitiveness. I couldn't agree with you more. As we try to dig ourselves out of a very deep financial hole as the result of COVID, I see agriculture as one of the critical industries that will provide some economic development opportunities.
How important, when it comes to that competitive factor for agriculture post-COVID, are the government policies that may have hurt that competitiveness—including some reciprocal issues with canola to China, for example? There is now a carbon tax of $170 coming in the next few years. What impact do some of these policies have on the canola industry, and what are some of the things that you see need to be addressed to ensure that competitiveness?