There's no doubt that changes in the environment and the increasing incidence of extreme weather events have had a significant impact on Canada's agricultural production. You're seeing that across the country with droughts, wildfires, excessive rain, floods and hurricanes. Farmers really are at the coalface, so to speak. They are on the front lines of climate change, which is why we at the Canadian Federation of Agriculture have been calling for increased support in our risk management programming to support farmers to adapt and respond to these incidents of climate change.
Most recently, we've called for the government and stakeholders to get together and have a disaster relief summit. Let's get all the players around the table and have a conversation about how we're going to fill this gap, because our current suite of programs is not responsive to the increasing incidence of extreme weather across Canada.