Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the witnesses. There's been some great testimony, very interesting.
I want to bring up an initiative that we've talked about a few times during this study. You brought it up, Ms. Cornish, when you were talking about in situ soil monitoring. I'd like you to explain that a little bit more if you could.
We've had discussion on how difficult it is for us when we talk about soil conservation and soil health. I know many of us in our rural municipalities, our counties, and MDs talk about 3T and 4T soil and trying to protect it, but development comes, and it isn't as protected as we would like.
Do you know, on the organic side, whether some of the provinces...? I think we need a national initiative to get a sense of where we are right now in terms of our soil health. From what I've heard from the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and some of these other groups, a really detailed study on the status of Canada's soils across the country has not been done in more than 30 years. Would that be helpful, or is it maybe too broad for us to take on? Would there be some benefits to putting some real work and funding behind that to get a starting point of where we are now? Then we can figure out where we need to be. It would be good to have a good understanding of where we are now.