Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for your excellent testimony.
Also, thank you, Mr. Chair and my colleague Richard. There are no brooms in your background right now that I can see, so I will extend congratulations for your cheering. With that we will carry on.
Let me start with you, Mr. Gilvesy, even though I can't see you. It is good to see you again. I believe I saw you just at the end of my tenure at the Agricorp board. Agricorp was the adjudication body as ALUS got off the ground. It's good to see you again.
I lifted one quote from the materials you forwarded to us. It was “Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.” That's by Aldo Leopold.
Can you comment further? Many changes have been made at the farm level. You've outlined some there. I'm familiar with many. Can you talk about how agriculture has not necessarily been credited with those? What do you mean exactly by that statement?