Environment committee  Considering that the use of broadband opens up a significant breadth of agricultural technology, it's almost exponential. If you have broadband, it allows farmers to use significantly more environmentally friendly technologies. It's just a matter of getting the rubber to hit the

Environment committee  I think the single most important thing that the government could do would be to increase its support for science and innovation, and perhaps look at it from a whole-of-government approach. We're fortunate enough to have a number of government departments that support science and

Environment committee  I do apologize.

Environment committee  Certainly. I think that's one of the struggles of being an industry association. There is that conflict between the researchers and the stakeholders that we represent. I'm doing it again. I'm speaking very quickly again. I do apologize.

Environment committee  In terms of carbon dioxide sponging, we had heard from some of the stakeholders we represent who compared it to the system that's currently in place in the Netherlands, where they feed the carbon dioxide generated in urban communities to agricultural carbon sinks, agricultural fi

Environment committee  Let me take a step back for a second. If we're looking at this sector, there's an opportunity to seize our opportunity versus becoming a victim of the challenges associated with it. If we can make the opportunities grow and the challenges sink, and bridge the gap between them, t

Environment committee  That's a hard one. Climate change is both of them, to be honest. Then as a result, it's carbon pricing. It's a challenge. It's an opportunity. Let's bridge the gap.

Environment committee  Thank you again for the question. We're supportive of the carbon tax, in terms of being able to use that carbon tax revenue to support the growth of clean technologies for use in the agricultural sector. Maybe the comments were taken a bit out of context by some of your colleagu

Environment committee  Thank you very much for your question. You're right. The Auditor General's report did paint a disappointing picture of the state of Canada's connectivity in rural and remote areas. We recognize that the government has taken some action on this. There was an FPT that was set up

Environment committee  Of course. Take, for example, precision agriculture. You have farmers who are using technology like drones and low-orbit satellites to monitor their crop fields and to identify where they need a specific kind of fertilizer, where they need to harvest a week earlier, or where they

Environment committee  I can't answer that directly. However, we do have stats that say that less than 50% of farmers have adopted technology on the farms. That might not be specifically related to broadband or to other things like that. I think that in the infographic that was provided in our brief,

Environment committee  Sure. If we identify a specific percentage of the carbon tax.... This would be something that the policy-makers would have to determine, but for an industry such as biofuels—again, I'm going to use biofuels as an example here—if we delineated specific funds tied to the carbon tax

Environment committee  That's just one example of a sector that could be supported.

Environment committee  I'm sorry. I do not.

Environment committee  I can certainly see merit in your proposal; however, our sector is supportive of using the revenue generated by the carbon tax to support our clean growth sector and specifically the agricultural component thereof. I'm not sure I can be fully supportive of the statement that you