Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for their excellent testimony and also for the materials they provided ahead of time.
I'd like to begin with the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.
I'm very interested in your support for a supply chain commissioner, taking a whole-of-government approach to tackle some of these issues. I'm very familiar with the dynamics of a problem that crosses jurisdictions and departments and ministries, having dealt with temporary foreign workers in my own riding and with the intersection of COVID with illegal workforces, bunkhouses, etc. Those dynamics I'm very familiar with.
It reminds me, actually, of my own household from a decade ago, as a father of four daughters. On Saturday morning at chore time I always had five—Alyssa, Carina, Brenna, Kiana and “Not Me”. It was always Not Me's job to take out the garbage.
Starting on that lighter note, although this isn't light, can you provide some specific examples as to issues that have either been punted from department to department or have fallen through the cracks, or where a siloed approach has not been efficient in addressing the issue?