Thank you, Mr. Maguire, for the question.
I think what we need to keep in mind is that agricultural producers in rural Canada by and large pay disproportionately more when it comes to pretty much everything but especially when we're talking about carbon pricing. As an example for those of you in urban ridings, when you want to go to the grocery store, you have a couple options when you go out the door—you jump in your car and choose to pay fuel tax on your drive there and back, or you go down the street to catch a bus or streetcar or whatever. We don't have that opportunity in rural Canada. Everything we do—and I know MP Angus will understand with his vast riding—requires us to travel long distances to do regular business, so we are paying disproportionately more.
We're still willing to do our part, so we need those financial incentives to figure out how we can do more online, for example, and how we can minimize our fuel use through technology, which is going to require expansion of broadband and 5G and, certainly, getting telecos that are sitting on unused spectrum to give it up because they didn't pay for it and they're not using it. That will increase the speed of broadband expansion throughout Canada, which is greatly needed for our production increases that are required and for efficiencies within livestock buildings, etc. As you heard, we are willing to do our part, but it's going to take that investment. When we make a decision in our operation to do more to sequester carbon, we don't do that environmental practice in isolation. There are also multiple co-benefits like nutrient retention, water flow increasing, biodiversity increasing. We increase the wildlife, pollinators, birds, etc. There are multiple environmental co-benefits with those investments; they're not just singular investments. We as farmers are willing to do our part, but we just can't bear the financial burden on our own backs; we need that help from government.