Mr. Speaker, I want to reiterate that I stand alongside these incredible organizations, which I talked about earlier, representing small farmers. They are calling on the government to abandon these proposed regulatory amendments, to protect farmers and to support farmers' rights through real action and not empty words. From what I just heard, I do not feel the government is going to do that, but it needs to come clean, explain its rationale and listen to the impact this is going to have on these farmers.
The ask of the stakeholders, who represent hundreds of thousands of farmers who grow our food, is simple: Will the government show, through concrete action and not empty words, that it respects a farmer's right to the age-old practice of collecting and saving their own farm seed, and abandon these harmful regulatory changes?
There are different sizes of farms. There are different farmers' needs, but these organizations represent a lot of farmers. They are being ignored, and I hope that the government will come clean on what it is proposing to do.