Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
We've heard a lot of statistics. I want to ensure there are statistics about the fact that over the last decade 8,000 family farms have disappeared. The average Canadian farmer has seen their debt double since about 2000. The last statistics I could see were from 2019. That debt is about $106 billion. That's quite significant.
Could both Ms. Bissonnette and Ms. Robinson talk about how that impacts their members specifically and their plans for retirement? Certainly there has been a great deal of stress, during COVID, on those families and those small businesses. What has that additional stress caused?
I want Ms. Bissonnette to go first.