Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Minister and guests.
Minister, the hallmark of your ministry so far as minister has been to put farmers first. That seems to be the way you operate the department. I respect that and think it's the way we should go. That's why I'm a little confused when we get different elements from our official opposition. They tell us we're going too fast, and then when we debate this in the House they tell us we're going too slow and not far enough.
One of the points that was made during the second reading of the bill in the House was that this was going to affect the food supply. I have a quote here from the president of the Canola Council, JoAnne Buth. She says there's enough canola production in Canada--primarily in western Canada--to fill about 70% of the 2% mandate without impacting the amount that goes for food. So that tells me the official opposition's position that this is going to have an impact on food is probably not tremendously credible.
Do you have an opinion on that?