Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you, MP May, for bringing this very timely legislation to us. My relaxation is driving a tractor, so I'm quite familiar with the significance of what is being asked. Of course, when you take a look at things like your DEF emissions control modules, when they start to go down it's not like an air conditioner where maybe you could open the windows. That shuts it down and you only have a small time frame when you can actually do the work you require.
One of the examples that I had was from a constituent. They have about a 1,200-acre farm around Olds, and quite frankly their average repair costs are probably $75,000 a year. Of course, that's not all related to the types of things that you're discussing, but it does show the significance of the cost of repairs. I think that really becomes a critical aspect of it.
The thing that we depend upon, of course, are the great repair shops that we have in our communities, where basically whenever you have trouble they know how to fix it. This becomes one of those issues that I think we really have to pay attention to.
One of the things we've heard from equipment dealers and manufacturers in the past is that the right to repair argument is more about demanding the right to make these illegal modifications to farm equipment. Because no doubt we're going to hear a lot about that issue, I'm just wondering if you can speak to that for a moment.