Madam Speaker, I will concentrate on the agriculture sector in my riding. South Okanagan—West Kootenay is largely in the fruit industry and in wine, grapes and vineyards. That industry has been literally hammered in the last two years by climate change because we have had these remarkably mild winters followed by, over a matter of 12 hours or a day, a radical shift to sub-zero temperatures, which are very cold for us. There are temperatures below -20°C.
We almost never get such temperatures. That has killed off a lot of the vines. It has certainly destroyed the grape crop for this year. It has killed off the peaches, the apricots, a lot of the plums and the cherries. Of the fruit industry in the Okanagan, the cherries are the most lucrative crop that can be grown. It is much better than growing grapes. Those crops have been literally destroyed this year by climate change. That is just a snapshot of how climate change is affecting agriculture in this country.