Thank you, Chair.
I'm really happy the government is going forward with the promise to elaborate a food strategy. Our party has worked really hard over the last few years on developing a food strategy from farm to fork. It's going to be important that they get it right.
One of the themes is access to food. We know that Canada is a rich country. We produce a lot of food—amazing quality food—and we export a lot of food, but there are still millions and millions of Canadians who are food insecure. There are 900,000 Canadians who go to food banks. Food banks were created to be a temporary solution. I have nothing against the food banks, but I would hope to see the day where we don't have food banks in Canada.
In 2012, the UN special rapporteur came to Canada and talked about the importance of the right to food. In these four themes, we don't adequately address food insecurity and how to make sure people have access to good quality food. I was wondering if you could speak about the importance of underscoring that right to food. Does the government adequately deal with the fact that we have so many food-insecure people in Canada?
Ms. Ventin. Then I guess we can go back that way.