Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Pfenning, you proposed to create an agency focusing on farm resilience. You mentioned that it was important that the agency be highly decentralized and that decisions come from its base. You said it had to be a centre that gathered information from research funded by the public sector, not by businesses that make profits from proposed products. Among other things, I'm thinking of the recent update of directives on genomic editing, which must certainly have disappointed you.
Do you agree with me that, if something of that kind were established, it would have to be really decentralized in order to accommodate the specific situations of the provinces and territories? Farmlands are different, and they are subject to different climates. Shouldn't there also be a major investment in research and development?