Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to my colleague Mr. Davidson, my colleague and friend from the soup and salad bowl.
I believe I have the honour of representing probably the highest vegetable production—in gross value, anyway. Not that we would ever compete or be competitive, but ours has both the greenhouse sector and the processing sector in our ridings.
You mentioned Lakeside Produce. This is just a sampling of the letters that came into my office encouraging us and this committee to look at Bill C-280. I very much appreciate your bringing that forward.
Lakeside Produce had a chilling and devastating effect, so I appreciate your bringing that out. It's been brought out that only 0.1% of the transactions of the values end up in bankruptcy. That's been one of the challenges of this legislation.
Why is it still needed if only 0.1% of the transactions end up in bankruptcy?