Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to clarify one point. In the budget, $600 million is dedicated to innovation in agriculture in order to recognize the absolute importance of being more and more efficient in our practices.
I thank the witnesses for being with us today.
I also thank Mr. Charlebois for suggesting some very important solutions. We know very well that the war in Ukraine has caused an increase in the price of food, wheat and oil. It has also caused problems with supply chains. Even though we are working very hard with our allies to deal effectively with the resulting global crisis, we have to be fiscally prudent in the wake of a pandemic. However, this does not change the fact that, in reality, it is the most vulnerable people who are at risk of food insecurity.
In my constituency, I represent a rural area. Soon people will have to choose between putting gas in their car to go to work or paying for groceries. That worries me a lot, obviously.
Mr. Charlebois, you mentioned some possible solutions, and I thank you for that.
Do you know whether our partners in the G7, the G20 or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, have found innovative solutions that would allow us to make better use of the budgets we have?