Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here. It's an interesting conversation so far.
I'll go back to the original questions relevant to the crickets. There are a lot of crickets in that room, Minister.
The PM visited the incoming president in Washington. We never heard a word from the opposition praising that move. We have a new office in Manila which you opened up in the Indo-Pacific. We haven't heard a word about that. You went to China, and they're condemning you for going to China, which I think is a strange move. We have a new school food program where we're going to support local suppliers and farmers. We have a sustainable Canadian agriculture partnership. We talked about the interest in young farmers and, if we don't continue to build on that program, which is in the supplementary estimates....
Minister, I want to ask you a very specific question. Why do you think the Conservatives will vote against supplementary estimates when we have agreements with provinces and territories and when we're investing millions of dollars to help farmers and producers? They're saying that they represent farmers. I just heard that over and over again, but here's a program that is very significant in Atlantic Canada and very significant in Prince Edward Island that's been successful, and I'm still scratching my head and wondering why the Conservatives would vote against it.