Thank you, Chair. I really appreciate that.
A few years ago, I was mayor of Cranbrook. We had a friendly city relationship with Wonju, a city in South Korea. We went over for a visit and I was amazed at what they're doing with agriculture. The ditches alongside the roads were full of crops. Every vacant lot in a city of 300,000 people was covered in vegetable gardens, and there was an experimental farm right outside there where they looked at what crops would grow, etc.
I was really excited but really depressed when I came back to Canada because of what I saw as the lack of real support from government for agriculture in Canada. We had been closing the research farms, etc.
I want to ask you, Ms. Baldwin, what are some of the things that the federal government should be doing to really help agriculture move forward and ultimately to reduce GHGs as a result?