I'd like to thank all the witnesses for their contributions.
Welcome back to Parliament, Mr. Turp.
I'm going to start with.... Obviously, this is an important system of Canadian policy, which was created by the government of Pierre Trudeau in 1972.
I want to start with David Wiens.
If I heard you correctly, you talked about climate targets in your opening statement. When I think about food and food purchasing ideas, in my simplistic mind.... We hear about thinking globally but shopping locally—reducing the carbon impact of a product we can get locally, as opposed to one we get from somewhere around the world. It sounded to me as if you were talking about climate targets and efforts on the part of farms in Canada to get to net zero.
Can you elaborate on how protecting supply management helps with meeting climate targets?