Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to direct some questions to Mr. Killorn from the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture.
I'd like to thank you, Donald, for attending today.
I really want to thank the Federation of Agriculture. As you're fully aware, I served as a board member there for many years. It may have been the sounding board for getting me to go further and become a federal member of Parliament.
We know that the federation in P.E.I. serves as a strong voice for producers across all agricultural sectors, but I was particularly interested in your presentation when you mentioned that food security is no longer just about food production, and the part about AgIntel and the agricultural compute strategy. When you represent a riding, as I do, where agriculture remains the cornerstone of the economy, you see the potential in technologies that improve productivity, reduce costs and obviously try to strengthen food security. In the meantime, we have to ensure that farmers continue to own farms and that their data is their data.
Can you speak to why it's important that we have sovereignty over our Canadian data in agriculture rather than have it owned by foreign platforms?