Agriculture committee  Tom, please keep it pretty tight; we're running close to time.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Now we'll go to Mr. MacGregor for two and a half minutes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. MacGregor. We have a bit of committee business to resolve before we adjourn for the day. I will excuse our witnesses. Thank you very much for being here and sharing your insights with us. We'll give you a minute to sneak out and get some barbecue outside.

Agriculture committee  CANADIAN DAIRY COMMISSION Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$4,994,571 (Vote 1 agreed to on division) CANADIAN GRAIN COMMISSION Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$5,893,735 (Vote 1 agreed to on division) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD Vote 1—Operating expenditures..........$662,147,698 Vote 5—Capital expenditures..........$66,820,123 Vote 10—Grants and contributions..........$799,514,734 (Votes 1, 5 and 10 agreed to on division) Shall I report the main estimates 2024-25, less the amounts voted in interim supply, to the House?

Agriculture committee  Good job, team. I will table that virtually tomorrow since our esteemed chair has other things to do, apparently. He better not be golfing. I'll be upset. Thanks, everybody. The meeting is adjourned.

Agriculture committee  You could go on, but your time is up, unfortunately.

Agriculture committee  That's okay. Thanks, Mr. Louis. Thanks, Ms. Taylor Roy. Monsieur Perron, you have two and a half minutes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I appreciate that. We'll now move to Mr. Louis and Ms. Taylor Roy. They are going to split their time. You have five minutes. Go ahead, Ms. Taylor Roy.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Beck. Thank you, Alistair. Now we'll go to Ms. Rood for five minutes.

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Mr. Perron. You can table that with the committee when you have an opportunity. I'll now go to Mr. MacGregor for six minutes.

Agriculture committee  I'll just end with this, and then I'll turn my time over to Mr. Lehoux. The frustration is that the government is increasing the carbon tax every year, and it's going up again by 23% on April 1, with no data showing that it is actually having any impact. In fact, emissions are going up.

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm going to be splitting my time with Mr. Lehoux, but I'll put a couple of questions forward. Maybe this is for Ms. Beck. We've had some meetings with the Canadian Grain Commission over the last couple of weeks specifically on the overpayments. My understanding is there's about $130 million in the account, let's say.

Agriculture committee  Pardon me? I'm sorry.

Agriculture committee  Sure. My understanding is that Mr. David Hunt has now been appointed the new chief commissioner. Have you or the minister given him any direction on what to do with the overpayments that are in that account?

Agriculture committee  Then whatever funds would be in the overpayment account would still be there. They're still sitting there. Okay. If you could, just table the number with us if you know it. Thank you.