Thank you so much, Chair.
We've covered supply chain issues for what seems like a good two years now. Our agriculture committee was one of the few that was operating in the early days of the pandemic. Of course, we produced a pretty substantive report on processing capacity in the previous Parliament.
Mr. Rosser, we did hear a lot of witness testimony about how centralized our slaughter capacity was, especially in meat-processing plants such as big multinational companies like Cargill. We talked a lot at this committee about programs like the local food infrastructure fund, and certainly many a witness has asked that the federal government step in more to provide the necessary capital so that we can have a more decentralized approach.
I'm stepping into the committee midstream here, so you may have answered this question before, but perhaps you could humour me and give me an update on what efforts AAFC is making for a decentralized approach to our slaughter capacity, just to make sure that we can withstand these types of disruptions in the future.