Mr. Speaker, I feel that food security and the role of the agriculture sector will have the biggest impact on my neighbourhood in Pickering—Brooklin. Half of my community is rural.
In the coming days and months, I am waiting to see what the government will do to strengthen Canada's food security by investing in greenhouses, hydroponics and controlled-environment agriculture that would allow us to grow more types of food here at home, which would definitely alleviate a lot of the lineups at food banks.
We must work to increase the resilience of food supply chains, support innovation and amend the mandate of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with respect to security and cost of food in its regulatory decisions, without compromising health and safety.