Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Perron. I'll say it in English. Listen, $50 million is likely not enough. It is a wonderful start. From conversations with Agriculture Canada, I understand that, on average, retrofitting a grain dryer would cost about $25,000. With that amount, we could do 4,000

Agriculture committee  Those are great questions.

Agriculture committee  For the first one, I don't know the technical answer. I can just say that for the Alberta program I flagged earlier, the average grant size was $6,000 for retrofits, and that led to about 40 retrofits in Alberta. That's different from the $25,000 I mentioned. I don't know if that

Agriculture committee  I think we're comparing apples to oranges. If we think about GHG efficiency per pound—let's just use that metric—we're doing very well. Again, what we need to remember is that climate change is going to continue and increase impacts on our farms if we don't reduce absolute emis

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  I think that's what the rebate serves to do. The rebate serves to recognize the upfront cost of the tax right now and the tight margins that farmers are facing, but also stimulates. It doesn't shy away from acknowledging that farmers want to and can reduce emissions. We need to s

Agriculture committee  Thanks for your question. The emissions in our sector are rising to 2030, and that's the problem. There's a second problem. If we look around the world compared with some of our most significant competitors, like countries in Europe and the U.S., we're noticing that their public

Agriculture committee  Thanks. I don't know about illuminating issues entirely, but I'd love to contribute. Thanks for the question, Mr. MacGregor. Listen, this question about alternatives existing in Canada is troubling. I'll provide one example. We have actually already had a Canadian precedent, a p

Agriculture committee  Yes. Thanks for the question, Mr. Louis. I'd be happy to. We have to remember that farm fuels, of course, demand part of the GHG portfolio in agriculture, but it's only 14%. The rest of our sector's emissions come from other sources, predominantly nitrogen management, crop produ

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thanks so much for inviting me to present today. My name is Karen Ross. I'm the director of Farmers for Climate Solutions, or FCS. We're a national coalition of farm organizations who know that agriculture must be part of th