Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, thank you for joining us today. We miss you. We would like to see you more often in committee. You are welcome to come any time you want to meet with us. At any rate, I am pleased to receive you here in committee, because your minister colleagues won't be rising to answer the questions, the way they do in the House. I hope you will seize every opportunity to answer our questions today.
In a request to information that I submitted to the government, I asked whether Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada had carried out studies on the impact of the new food guide on the various sectors of the agriculture industry. To my great surprise, I was told that the department had conducted no such studies.
Why did you transfer the responsibility of protecting farmers to the Minister of Health?