Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to turn my questions to Mr. Keenan.
Mr. Keenan, I represent a riding on the other coast, the Pacific side, and certainly my province is no stranger to extreme weather events that have been fuelled by climate change.
We had the atmospheric river in British Columbia, which absolutely devastated our breadbasket, which is the Fraser Valley, and many farms experienced massive losses from that. I think the total amount of damage to our province from that one weather event exceeded $9 billion.
I know that on the east coast you've had your experiences on P.E.I. We had testimony from Nova Scotia farmers during our last committee meeting on this subject.
I would like to pose the same question to you—namely, what hard lessons have farmers on P.E.I. learned from those extreme weather events? In the spirit of your remarks on being proactive—and you can expand on other remarks you've already given—where would you like to see the federal government step in to help farmers achieve resilience and adaptability to what are sure to be increasingly frequent and unsettling extreme weather events?