Agriculture committee  You will. I'm going to be very quick and concise. What you are talking about is a growth plan, and resiliency comes from a sound growth plan. Yes, Alistair, everybody is looking for new energy forms, but we have to look at everything as an integrated model. That includes our infrastructure, our people, our energy, our inputs and, as Mr.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Perron. Immediate change for tomorrow would be easing and reducing the administrative burden on the farmer and also on those post the farm gates. The challenge many farmers go through is the administrative burden of trying to go through the process of getting the labour in, and that is fundamental.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I feel it would be a great opportunity to improve things for everyone.

Agriculture committee  It certainly does. We saw some of this shift during the pandemic when people were looking for solutions on how to prepare food and how to store it. People were going back to home gardens and community gardens. That is foundational for shifting and changing behaviour and the knowledge of food.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. My answer is almost the same as Mr. Ross's. I feel that we need to look at it. I don't know if you'd like to ask another question.

Agriculture committee  I'm going to answer in English, as I don't have a lot time. Yes, we did see a change. We did see movement in our temporary foreign worker program and in access to labour, but as Mr. Ross mentioned, as we move to more technology and more of the skilled labour that's required to drive change, we do require increased immigration.

Agriculture committee  That's a great question. The greenhouse industry has a huge opportunity, especially in areas like strawberries and even melons, which are now being tested and sold back to the U.S. We need energy and access. We need to look at the carbon strategy to try to support the greenhouse industry more effectively, as well as have a strategy that can ensure we have the labour that's necessary to support efforts to expand.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and committee members. On behalf of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, which represents over 840 companies growing, packing, shipping and selling fresh fruit and vegetables domestically and globally and supports roughly 249,000 jobs across the country, I'm happy to present today on global food insecurity.

Transport committee  I'll just reference some recent information from the U.S., looking at some of the key pieces coming out of the House of Representatives bill. The introduction of the ocean shipping antitrust enforcement act is one key piece trying to deal with the oligarchy of shipping lines that are in the market, totally controlling channel routes and container movement.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I'm happy to quickly respond. The temporary foreign worker program, whether on farm or off farm, is unto itself a separate program, but the temporary foreign worker program from post-farm gate is where we're asking the government to increase the cap from 10% to 30% in an emergency strategy to try to bring more workers in to fill some of those key roles.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, perhaps I could quickly answer that. The federal government has put dollars aside looking at the national trade corridors fund—$1.9 billion—and also looking at December funding on the fluidity of supply chains. If we're going to open up new international trade corridors, do we have CBSA?

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. It's very good to see you again. The quick answer is that the U.S. now has what they call a supply chain “czar”, but I don't think that's the right word that you want to use in this day and age. The commissioner, in essence, needs to have the authority....

Transport committee  I can, most certainly.

Transport committee  Perhaps I can start. Thank you for the question. There may not be a need to share exclusive data relative to the data that is being collected. I think the bigger question is how we consolidate the data the government itself is collecting and how we more effectively leverage that data.

Transport committee  The short answer is yes, and then looking at what the right municipal, provincial and federal levers need to be in place to help that happen.