Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to both of our witnesses for guiding us on this journey with this new study.
Mr. Taylor, I'll start with you. I am very interested in the subject of food waste, and it's been really intriguing to listen to the success you've had with production facilities in reducing their waste.
I have a small organization in my riding called the Cowichan Green Community, and they've partnered with local supermarkets to take their food that has gone past the date but is still quite viable. With a grant from our provincial government, they are repurposing that food and selling it. They're really just tackling this as much as they can and then, when they get to a point where the food is no longer fit for human consumption, they have partnerships with local farms so that it can be used as animal feed. That way, a very small percentage, if any at all, is left over for the landfill.
They are getting close to having it commercially viable. It has taken some government assistance to scale up their operation, but if we wanted to replicate that model to other small communities across Canada, do you have any suggestions about what we could include in our report for the federal government?