I think you're hitting on something really salient for Canadian families right now, which is that they know we're in a trade war. They also know that the world is changing. They have a high degree of anxiety about what's going to happen to their own circumstances and those of their friends and neighbours, and Canadians have been pulling together all across the country.
It's amazing to see, for example, if you go into your local grocery store, how much produce is now being grown in Canada. That's why I think this announcement of the groceries and essentials benefit is not just about tax relief for Canadians and support for low-income Canadians, but also about investments in our own capacity to grow our own local food.
I think of the Windsor-Essex area, which has giant farms that provide all kinds of produce for the country, and how that area might be able to utilize some of the supports of the government to redouble its efforts. I also think about small producers in my own region. I am in northern Ontario, which is not a hot spot for agriculture, but we have local cattle producers, pork producers and greenhouses. In fact, Sleepy G Farm, which I am a shareholder of.... Well, it's kind of a food share, actually. You buy a food share, and then you get it all throughout the summer. These are the kinds of local farms that are really excited about the announcement, because it's going to help increase their capacity not just to produce food, but to store it and distribute it through local food economies.
That's the intent behind the latest announcement. It's support directly to low-income families, but it's also support to the entire ecosystem so we can have a stronger system of sovereignty when it comes to food producing at the local and large industrial scales.