Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I am particularly interested in supply management. My question goes to both witnesses.
My main concern is for the farms and family businesses all over rural Canada, where jobs are created and preserved because of the supply management system. Those sectors are not asking for any support or funding from governments of the day. The system works; it provides people with reassurance about the quality, and especially the availability, of the products.
The current government says that it supports supply management plans and intends to respond to farmers' claims by keeping the system in place. What are you going to say to all those owners of businesses and family farms, the people who shape the identity of our country, if they are forced into bankruptcy, if they lose their jobs and if unemployment in the regions goes up?