I am now going to turn to Ms. Lafleur, who is doing doctoral studies on suicidal behaviours among farmers.
I also include you, Ms. Pelchat.
We all know that there are problems and we are already familiar with a lot of factors that cause farmers stress: insecurity, the climate, the long work hours because of the labour shortage, debt, prejudices, and so on. There are a lot of factors. We are dealing with an epidemic; farm suicides are a plague.
Tell us about the studies you have done in Quebec and whether the statistics apply to Canada as a whole.