Thank you to my NDP colleague for his comments.
He said he finds it strange that we would want to question the Minister of Environment and Climate Change about the carbon tax and the increased use of food banks. I think that is quite strange because, quite frankly, the farmers are the ones who grow the food. If you're going to talk about climate change and the environment, why wouldn't you bring in the people who are the environmental stewards of this land and the farmers—the people who are actually growing our food? What restrictions are on them? How are they best doing it? What practices do they have in place?
If he wants to question him, I think this is a great opportunity. Is there an amendment he could offer? There is something here, I think, for the NDP. For somebody who obviously cares about food prices—it has been their opposition motion put forward in the House—why wouldn't he support something like this?
I will also say, on the record, Mr. Chair, that I cosponsored the event where they released this food bank report card. Not one NDP member was there. This is the worst report card we've ever had from Food Banks Canada. Why wouldn't we want to study this and ask the minister further questions, so that we can help repair it?