Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for appearing before our committee today. We do appreciate testimony helping us formulate some conclusions for the report that we want to table on this important subject.
Mr. Orb, I'd like to talk with you. I was taking some notes from the appearances of both the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. At one point in their testimonies, both expressed some concern about the encroachment on farmland.
Given that you represent rural municipalities in Saskatchewan, I'm just wondering.... I mean, we know that, of course, land use decisions are provincial and fall under municipalities—they are creatures of the province. Can you maybe talk a little bit about how farmland is being preserved from that encroachment in Saskatchewan? I think you'd have a unique perspective. Do you see any role that the federal government can play in preserving that valuable farmland, given that we're talking about the theme of food security and how integral land is to that question?