That is the opportunity for Canada to lead the way and to provide and share those innovations.
Today all of the witnesses who are appearing in front of this committee are members of the National Index on Agri-Food Performance. That index is a coalition of over 100 organizations, which includes federal government departments as well as provincial departments, industry players large and small, and all of the producer groups. Evan and I are part of the index from the not-for-profit community. It's a very interesting Canadian solution to benchmarking economic, environmental, social and food integrity opportunities to showcase and highlight them and have Canada lead the way.
We should not be following. We should not be ashamed of the impact that innovation has made in agriculture.
The first time I came to western Canada, I was 14 years old. Almost half the land that I saw was under summer fallow. Now it's not, so thank you.