Agriculture committee  The first question is who paid the tariffs. It wasn't the producers who gave the government the amounts collected. The rebate should be given to the people who paid the tax.

Agriculture committee  I'd say it's still early days in this program. When people were making applications, we certainly looked at the expected emissions reduction. I think some of it will be seeing what we get. We'll get more information as time goes on. We've obviously done lot in the grain drying a

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. I think it's an important one. Without commenting on the specifics of an agency, I would say that we do a lot, along with the provinces. Agriculture Canada has 20 research centres across the country. We have research on the ground with producers and our

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. Both of these programs are relatively new, so one measure of demand is, obviously, the applications—how many stakeholders or applicants we have. As discussed when the minister was here, certainly in the clean technology program we've had a high level of

Agriculture committee  One key thing we've been looking for is making sure that fertilizer was available—making sure that the suppliers were able to get fertilizer to distribute to farmers. Certainly, while there were some worries, the feedback last year and this fall is that we're in pretty good shape

Agriculture committee  What I took from the minister's response was that it's very difficult to rebate the money to the end-consumers because the tariff wasn't paid by farmers directly; it was paid by companies bringing the product in. She was looking at, and discussing with the sector, whether there w

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. We hear this a lot. We discuss it with the processing sector and obviously with producers as well. There are huge parts of the primary agriculture sector that rely on temporary workers and other seasonal workers to produce their products. We've had lots

Agriculture committee  I haven't done the math; I can't agree or disagree with it.

Agriculture committee  As the minister said, we're definitely in discussions on this question. We hear a lot about it from the sector and we hear worry about being prepared. As for how that will roll out, we've certainly discussed with the provinces and with industry about the possibility and how we

Agriculture committee  I don't have that number with me.

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure it's a number that we would collect, because we don't set the tariffs, obviously, or collect the funds. The Department of Finance or the trade department would have that.

Agriculture committee  We certainly have talked extensively, going back to last February, with both suppliers and producer groups about challenges and availability of fertilizer. The price of fertilizer, as you know, was an issue before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it's obviously risen since

Agriculture committee  I would just say that we certainly talk to the ornamental horticulture organization and others, and we have a whole gamut of programs that we talk to them about that we can work on with them. It's definitely something we've discussed with them in the past. I don't have any specif

Agriculture committee  I'd have to go back to the ones we've talked to them about before. Some of them would be ours. Some of them would be.... We often play a role coordinating with organizations like that and bringing in partners like Natural Resources, regional development agencies and others that c

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. As noted at the start, there's a labour shortage. In order to produce food, we need these employees, these temporary foreign workers. This need exists. I think that employers, overwhelmingly, are very happy to provide a safe environment for the worker