One of the main points we're trying to get across in our advice around the next policy framework, as Scott mentioned in his opening remarks, is that it needs to be looked at from a whole-of-government approach, not just Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. That means really leveraging some of the investment tools that exist in other portfolios across this government. Infrastructure funding, for example, would support more proactive investments in water management, which would go a long way in preventing a repeat occurrence of certain types of negative effects on farms related to drought, etc. I think we also need to be looking at tax incentives to support growth and investment in this sector, and at streamlining regulatory burden to support investment in value-added processing.
All these things need to be looked at in a coordinated fashion as part of a whole-of-government lift toward supporting the agriculture sector and Canada's food security, in particular.
