Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for appearing before us today.
We've heard about lots of meetings. We understand that the meetings are going well—whatever that might mean, because no concrete results have been established and no deadline for reporting back has been established. So I'm not quite certain what it actually represents to say that the meetings are going well, in the face of farmers who are committing suicide.
Mr. Lechowicz, in terms of what this committee can immediately do to assist tobacco farmers—and I'm not talking about scheduling more meetings—if I were to seek unanimous consent from committee members for a motion calling on the federal government to provide immediate funding to the extent of $1.78 per pound for tobacco farmers in Canada, as an interim payment until a full exit strategy can be implemented, how would such a motion be received by your sector?