Thank you all for coming up today.
Dr. Sparling, I appreciate the comments you made on Growing Forward 2, and some of the recommendations. Perhaps unlike the others here, I've had the benefit of listening to you speak on a couple of occasions now, typically on the need for a national food policy. I attended one of your events at the university in London about a year and a half ago.
For the benefit of others around the table, I would point out that New Zealand, Scotland and the United Kingdom all have a national food policy. To me, it's a meaningful, intentional document that pulls everything together, not just piecemeal things. I'm wondering if you could talk to us about the benefits of a national food policy for the farmers, the processors, and even down to the consumers, as well as its value for nutrition and health care, and all of those things that would be found in that policy.