It most definitely would because it does a few things. It creates stability for farmers and other fruit and veg sellers in Canada to invest more.
They know they are in a COVID environment, and there are farmers right now who have reduced their acreage and how much they are producing out of concern for their economic stability and concern for what they are producing. Are they going to get paid for it? Is the company they are selling to going to go bankrupt in these unstable times more so than ever in the past?
Within Canada, that farmer selling has no inventory to access, as I mentioned in the past at committee. There is nothing if there is a bankruptcy; they are left totally out of pocket. They cannot leverage the BIA effectively, based on how it is set up.
With a PACA-like tool in place, we were looking for a model so a farmer would feel confident he could sell, that the food security model would be effective and the long-term success of the industry would be stabilized.