Madam Chair, the answer is 60%. Sixty per cent of Canadians in rural and remote communities don't have high-speed Internet.
For five years the agricultural industry has been calling on this government for, and has been promised a review of, business risk management programming without any action.
The Agri-food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University states that without receiving significant help quickly, up to 15% of Canadian farms could be gone by the end of the year. The impact on Canada's food security is alarming.
Is additional support from the federal government conditional on provincial support, yes or no?