Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate that, and it's unfortunate. The way that committees work is that we have such limited time every week. We only have two committee meetings for a couple of hours each, and we have to address a lot of different things during that time. This is a normal part of our committee practice.
I do appreciate the fact that we have witnesses who have been able to give a statement, so thank you.
Back to my motion, when we're looking at the cost of food, which, as I said, directly flows into the study that we're discussing right now, we've heard testimony on how there's a crisis of volunteering in Canada, and we've heard testimony here today from multiple witnesses that some of that is due to the cost of inflation and the affordability crisis that we're having in Canada. One way to help address that is to remove the carbon tax from the farmers who are producing our food.
We heard from a previous witness regarding the crisis in volunteering right now and how volunteerism has decreased. A lot of not-for-profits are having trouble finding volunteers because of inflation and because of an affordability issue that ties directly into the motion that I have on one way to bring down the price of food.
We've heard that there are a number of comments being reported out there where, for example, the Big Brothers of Greater Vancouver have kids with no adults to connect with them. They no longer accept children into this mentorship program in Surrey, B.C., due to a shortage of volunteers.