Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In the interest of transparency, I'm a former colleague of Mr. Hagerman, an employee at the Foodgrains Bank. Our farm is one of the 28,000 members of the Grain Farmers of Ontario.
Beginning with Mr. Hagerman, you referenced the shifting focus. All entities, governments, NGOs, farms and businesses operate under the laws of scarcity. We have the shock of the war in Ukraine impacting food and triggering more humanitarian crises, yet you talked about the successes of longer-term investments in development.
How does the Foodgrains Bank go at that balance, and what would your advice to government be?