Thank you.
Certainly, municipalities would advocate for long-term stable funding anyway, not temporary infrastructure funding. In fact, you could probably go to any municipality.... I know that in mine we have a 15-year infrastructure plan, but you're not going to spend the money on studies if you're not actually going to spend the money in that fiscal year.
Just quickly, because I don't have a lot of time, I'll move to Mr. Ross.
I have an urban-rural riding outside of the GTA, the Toronto area, in Ontario.
One of the biggest issues with agriculture is the fact that land values are so high that most farmers, even when we protect the land, actually sell it to developers because they make so much more money that way, to the point where the province sometimes has to step in and create greenbelt legislation, for example. How do we actually make farming profitable so that families or farmers stay on the land? That's my first question.
Second, for a lot of the land, through greenbelt legislation in Ontario, for example, they now lease the land to farmers so that they can't actually then sell it to developers. What's the length of lease that actually makes it worthwhile for a farmer to invest in the property? Has your organization looked at length of lease? That's the biggest issue. When you have one-year or two-year leases, they're not willing to invest in the land, and it therefore becomes crop farms and does not really produce for food production.