Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I know I have only two minutes, but I will begin by saying that no one around the table is opposed to the objective of healthy school food and its benefits for children, and yet we are hearing the Liberals and New Democrats saying that people are voting against that goal.
In fact, we are not voting against the principle, we are voting against the method.
With all due respect, Mr. Cormier, your bill will duplicate the existing services in the provinces, in community organizations, in practice, or in the schools. Those are the people who have the expertise and are delivering these services. The federal government wanting to provide financial support for the types of programs that exist in Quebec and elsewhere is one thing. Wanting to institute a national framework in a federation where these powers belong to the provinces will create overlap and build a bigger bureaucracy, and solve nothing, because the federal government has no expertise in how to do it.