Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here.
Just for the record, Madam Chair, right now, Canada's real food inflation is not the worst in the G7 and is not double that of the U.S. if you discount base effects. The numbers for December are heavily affected by base effects. If you discount them, food inflation in Canada right now is in the 3% to 4% range, not 6%. We have to adjust it for the base effects.
Minister, we created a support program for Canadians to partially offset the cumulative increase in food prices. Can you tell us how the program that was just announced, which we are debating today with the study of Bill C‑19, is different from the one that was put in place a year ago regarding the changes to the GST?