Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to go to Mr. Miller and Ms. Reesor.
We should have learned a lesson from the Mirabel debacle. The idea of taking farmland and just keeping it in reserve does a profound disservice to the goals of food sovereignty. Increasingly, people are concerned about shipping food produce around the world with that huge carbon footprint and the climate change that it entails, rather than actually producing local food for the local economy. In my neck of the woods, in British Columbia, we talk about the 50-mile diet. We try to consume food from within 50 miles of our location in the Lower Mainland because that's what's healthy for the environment and also healthy for our future as a country, to have food sovereignty.
Can you comment on the environmental impact of putting all that land aside, rather than having it engaged with a clear mandate for farmers to actually produce the food that we need in southern Ontario? In British Columbia, we have the agricultural land reserve. We've made a conscious attempt to preserve the agricultural land, not only to have long-term agricultural land, but to protect it for future generations as well.