Thank you very much.
Among the best practices—several are already known—it has been proven that the presence of infrastructure encourages people to go outside and engage in physical activity.
I would now like to discuss the matter of incentives to encourage people to eat healthy foods. We know that Quebec is the larder of the country. There are many farmers in that province and yet family farms are having a great deal of trouble surviving because of multinationals and large agri-food companies.
Is the government doing anything about that? Is the government encouraging public markets in some proactive way? In my community there is a distribution coop that is having trouble getting the word out. In fact, farms are too small to hire people to work in the distribution cooperatives in public markets. In addition it is difficult for them to get into the large food store chains since they must provide a supply of food products throughout the year. And we know that with our winters it is difficult to supply product the whole year round.
Could the government invest so as to ensure that local food can be offered at good prices, or have some traction in our grocery stores—