Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses.
Mr. Lemaire, thank you very much. I wasn't aware that 90% of fresh fruit and vegetables purchased by Canadians came from your members. That's very important, particularly in light of climate change and the fact that consumers are increasingly looking to purchase produce that's close to home. People are increasingly concerned about the environmental costs of flying produce around the world.
I think the committee has heard your eloquent plea for changes to the small-business deduction. That does make sense. I wanted to come back to the issue of the national food policy council and see if you could elaborate a bit more.
Are you concerned about issues of food sovereignty, which is a growing movement as you know, including in the fruit and vegetable sector? Is that something you are looking to provide some direction on, that if we look at a national food policy council, one of the issues we should be looking at as Canadians is increasing food sovereignty?