Agriculture committee  Earlier, when I said we had reduced our deliveries.... I worked with my retailers for that, to allow deliveries four days a week, so we were able to save about 100,000 kilometres a year doing that. The next project that our facility is looking at doing is a new indoor compost fa

Agriculture committee  It doesn't seem very fair whatsoever. When we did our transition to natural gas from propane, we were able to tap into a fund. Basically, we got $24,000 to help offset the cost of switching from propane to natural gas. It cost us upwards of $2 million to do that, but we knew we n

Agriculture committee  Basically, the carbon tax we pay is about $150,000 a year, but all the other input costs, like our transportation costs, have excess carbon taxes on them, so when we have trucks bringing us material, they have extra tax on their line item for carbon, and that's something we haven

Agriculture committee  If you look at a mushroom farm, basically we have a super structure. The super structure is four inches thick with insulation. Within the super structure we'll have all the growing rooms, and those growing rooms are another four inches of insulation in each room, so they're very

Agriculture committee  For this upcoming year, it's not complete yet, but last year we paid just over $150,000 for the year in carbon tax. There was no rebate for us whatsoever. A couple of years ago, when the greenhouse growers received their exemption, which was up to 80%, I reached out to CRA and w

Agriculture committee  I would like to thank everyone for inviting us here today as well. I'm the president of Mushrooms Canada, and I operate a mushroom farm about 30 minutes south of Ottawa, near the village of Osgoode. Ours is a second-generation family farm, where I farm with my brother and other