Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
One of the things that all committee members from all parties agree on is agriculture.
Mr. Northey, I would like to talk to you about a resolution that was debated at the Liberal national convention.
The resolution was about food security and agriculture support. They really were concerned about food security, as I explained a little bit earlier, and the climate crisis, the water shortage and land degradation around the world. They see an opportunity, but we also need to step up.
They welcome the sustainable Canadian agriculture partnership and its new resilient agriculture landscape program. They thought it was a really good move towards a positive policy for agriculture to support farmers and sustainable agriculture.
It was debated and adopted at the Liberal convention, and they made two recommendations. The first one was to increase direct payments to farmers, including fisheries—Mr. Perkins would be happy with that—that provide ecological goods and services as an ecosystem service or carbon sequestration in agriculture to incentivize them to adopt less resource-intensive practices.
The second recommendation was to orient such direct payments towards initiatives that will boost agriculture investment and innovation and enable the transfer of knowledge, technology and skills.
May I have your feedback on this resolution?