Thank you so much, Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for helping with our study today.
I'll start with Mr. Gilvesy with ALUS. I was struck by your comment in your opening remarks that “programming must create value at the farm gate”.
My wife and I have a small farming property, and it was pretty much a bee desert when we first had it. We had some apple trees, and we took some time to plant a lot of flowering plants all over the place and slowly brought the bees back. We had the benefit of a huge apple crop in subsequent years.
Can you expand on that comment and maybe put it in the context of some specific recommendations you would like to see in our eventual report to the government?