Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I should mention that I've been to countries with very low or no taxes. Honestly, I don't think anyone here wants to live in a country where there's no support for education, hospitals, road maintenance, safety, or whatever. In Canada, we're proud of our employment insurance system and old age security. That's important. We're not going to cut that when times are tough, and that help is needed.
As far as tax cuts are concerned, the United Kingdom recently did this experiment, and it's now clear that it's not even economically viable. So what the previous speakers proposed has been tried, but unlike the U.K., we don't want to plunge our country into an even worse inflationary crisis, nor into a monetary or political crisis.
So instead, I'm going to talk to witnesses who are providing real solutions, such as the representatives of the Union des producteurs agricoles and the Green Budget Coalition.
Mr. Tougas, your colleague Mr. Caron told us before he left that an investment in agriculture and agri-food is an investment in the food security of Canadians. Could you tell us more about exactly what the Union des producteurs agricoles is proposing?
So one of your recommendations is to provide more direct support to farmers who provide ecological goods. Under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, we created the resilient agricultural landscapes program. Are we on the right track? Are you proposing to go even further in that direction?