One other issue I want to point out, and I'm sure you're in agreement, is that I've often observed that rain makes grain. If we don't have water in agriculture, we don't have any food. Rain makes grain, but with drought, nobody wins. That's an old farm saying, actually, and you can take that one to the bank. It's so true, as we see when we look at how ecosystems break down when we don't have enough water.
When we talk about water, we are talking about food supply in our nation. This is why we need to get this correct. Agriculture needs to be front and centre. The agriculture managers—the producers who are on the landscape—have the ability to actually save Canada and make Canada a nation that is a superpower when it comes to agricultural production, but they have to have the tools. It doesn't need a top-down type of government approach; it needs a bottom-up type of approach whereby farmers can actually be part of the solution.
Thank you.