Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I just caught part of it, but I think one of the things you mentioned was regaining public trust and how we make sure that we have the proper tools in place for farmers from a mental health perspective as compared to urban centres. I think one of the things that's been mentione

Agriculture committee  We didn't have a lot of discussion about that. An observation of my own is that, quite often, if you get addiction issues, that might be in response to the mental health issue—

Agriculture committee  —and stress. It's a coping mechanism. That's what happens. People go in that direction.

Agriculture committee  I think that would get into identifying what some of the best practices are within the different provinces. Resources are always going to be a question. How do you focus on targeted resources to take that role in identifying best practices and coordinating some of the responses?

Agriculture committee  Getting into the whole financial discussion, even my own case, it was finances that really started me down the road to stress. Pork producers and some of our grain producers are seeing price drops now. It's the side result of what's happening with the trade wars. We are actually

Agriculture committee  I think it's a culture of isolation. As Kim said, the attitude is, “Suck it up.” I think the big problem is that because they're afraid of being viewed as soft, farmers are reluctant to come forward. It goes back to that cultural issue. This is not just our generation; this i

Agriculture committee  As I said, we'd support the idea of a centre of excellence and mental health, with an agricultural focus, again, pulling that information together. There are going to be shared jurisdictions between federal, provincial and municipal governments that provide services. The other

Agriculture committee  One of the key factors is the need for coordination. I was sitting here this morning when I heard about the sentinel program. That's an extremely good example out of Quebec. Are there ways it can be replicated in other provinces? It's all about coordination. Ms. Kelly also menti

Agriculture committee  We can provide a report. I'll ask Scott to provide you with some information from our office. It was one of the first conversations we had with that many people around, and I think we managed to identify the fact that, as I said in the presentation, there's a lot of activity tak

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  I'll build the rest in later. I know how this works.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much to the committee for taking time to discuss an issue that I think hasn't been discussed nearly enough for a number of years. I don't think I need to give you much background on the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, but just so you know, we do represent farm

Fisheries committee  I think right off the top we've seen a difference in the relationship. We had Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials come in and meet with our whole board at our last meeting in early April. It almost seemed like there was a difference in attitude within the department on h

Fisheries committee  Thank you. At the start, I would like to say that, like many of you, I was shocked at the passing of Gord Brown this morning. Gord was a great advocate for agriculture. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time. As many of you know, the Canadian Federation of Agric