Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think I speak for all of us that it's an incredible honour, Minister, for you to take the time to be with us, certainly considering the immensely stressful war that you're trying to deal with. I think it's critically important that Canada stand with Ukraine, certainly for most of us who represent western Canada.
Our agriculture industry was literally built on the backs of Ukrainian immigrants who came here more than 100 years ago and broke the ground and built our agriculture industry. Thank you. We are certainly thinking of you.
I'll just get to my questions first off.
We've been speaking a lot about military equipment and how we can help you with that. I certainly don't foresee our discontinuing that. We know how important it is to provide the resources to Ukraine to help on the military side.
You spoke about storage. Are there some things that we can do in Canada to help you on the agriculture side, like seeds, farm equipment, machinery or fuel? What would that temporary storage look like? I know your storage is much different than we have. We store a lot on farm, while you have more of a hub of storage.
Are there some steps or things that we can do to provide some assistance on that side?