Agriculture committee  I'm not sure I can answer that directly. Yes, it would, conceptually, but it depends on the evolution of technologies. It's difficult to say yes or no, in this case—not understanding what the future will look like. Clearly, what it would do is remove that incentive to act sooner,

Agriculture committee  That's per farm. It's $820 for the first year.

Agriculture committee  If you don't mind, I'm just going to correct something here. My understanding is the 15% to 20% return is for a very specific type of farm. It's probably a grain farm for a grain dryer, because if you look at the aggregate—

Agriculture committee  The return is 100%. For some types of farms, it may represent less than 100% and for some others it may represent more because it's an average. The whole amount of fuel charge receipts collected from farmers is being returned to farmers. On an aggregate basis, we return 100%.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I agree with that.

Agriculture committee  As a starting point, the B.C. system was used as a basis for a model to develop the GGPPA. The other thing I would note on the GGPPA and the general approach by the federal government with respect to climate change is that there is obviously a recognition that, in the economy, th

Agriculture committee  The approach taken with respect to natural gas and propane used for heating and cooling buildings is the refundable credit. There is an acceptance by the government that the money is to be returned directly. The question is how, and what principle to use to support that return.

Agriculture committee  We calculate the total amount collected, which was $100 million for the first year. Now we have to determine how to redistribute that money, the basic principle being equitable redistribution that does not affect the price signal. It is similar to the approach used for the carbon

Agriculture committee  Legislative changes would be needed to solve the problem, to ensure than there is just one approach in the system, and not both of them.

Agriculture committee  I think the question is really for Agriculture Canada officials.

Agriculture committee  What we know is that the refundable tax credit will provide for the first year about $820 per farming business. That is the average. We are returning all of the proceeds, so that would be roughly equivalent to the average fuel charge that's paid by these businesses. There is a l

Agriculture committee  I think it's important to clarify revenue neutral. The concept of revenue neutrality here is on an aggregate basis. Again, the approach that has been determined as preferable by the government is to look at the envelope, the total amount of fuel charge paid by the farming sector—

Agriculture committee  That would be the objective of an exemption, which is not the same thing.

Agriculture committee  What I'm saying is that the objective of this measure is to return all of the fuel charges collected by the sector and return them to the sector while maintaining the price signal. In order to maintain the price signal, the metric that has been used to redistribute the money is t

Agriculture committee  I'm not going to take this one in a few seconds, if you don't mind.