Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Particularly, Mr. Hagerman, thank you for being here. It's nice to see you again. I'm very impressed, and always have been, with the work the Foodgrains Bank does and how it works in collaboration with the World Food Programme and others. In fact, I purchased the painting behind me in Ethiopia when I was visiting a Canada Foodgrains project there many years ago.
The question I want to ask you goes forward from what my colleague Mr. Bergeron was asking about. We know there was a World Food Programme analysis in September of this year that showed that every 1% cut in food assistance pushes about 400,000 people into emergency hunger.
We know that we have a feminist international assistance policy. Women are the ones who are most impacted when there is food scarcity, when there is food insecurity.
Can you talk a little bit more about what impact Canada's cut to the aid budget has had on global food security? We know that we should be at 0.7%. We've never reached that target in Canada, but the 15% cut in the last budget is very difficult.
Perhaps you could comment on that, Mr. Hagerman.