I know that my colleague on the other side talked about food waste. Food waste is something that I've been bringing up in the House since about 2012. Canada really hasn't taken any leadership on food waste. I realize that a lot of the food waste happens at home and we can't control what people do at home, but there are a lot of things that I think the federal government can do with respect to education.
Also, other countries have moved and legislated to ban food waste. I'm not talking about giving people trash or about making people sick, but there have been amazing projects in Quebec. In Montreal and in the regions of Mauricie and Lanaudière, there are amazing partnerships between supermarkets and food banks. I would love to see the day that in Canada we do not have food banks, that we do not have people living in poverty, but the federal government needs to make steps.
Could you maybe talk about food waste?
I don't know how much time I have, but if we have time, I would like to also have you talk about the importance of agroecology. We've heard about that a few times at committee during this study. Is the government doing enough to educate farmers and maybe move away from certain practices of overuse of pesticides here in Canada?