Agriculture committee  Great. I'll answer very quickly. Food insecurity is a function of people not being able to afford enough to eat. If we want Canadians to be more food secure, we need to address the cost of living and housing. This moves us out of food and into wages and the cost of living. I thi

Agriculture committee  You should take my class in this course.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. Resiliency often has different layers or different lines of defence. The ability of the ecosystem to produce food in a drought is the first line of defence. A farmer can build up soil organic matter and plant some windbreaks. Those are very practical

Agriculture committee  There are two parts to the vision. One is largely related to farmers who are currently producing grains or oilseeds, and livestock. A lot can be done to encourage those farmers to adopt management practices and technologies that are more energy-efficient, more efficient in terms

Agriculture committee  Well, he was making a couple of key points last week. It was an event organized between the Canadian embassy in Japan and the Japanese embassy in Canada and the mutual chambers of commerce to discuss better connections between Canada and Japan on agricultural exports. There were

Agriculture committee  Literally.

Agriculture committee  You've hit the proverbial nail on the head there. The technical language is the measurement, verification and reporting system, the MRVs, to measure both the additional carbon that is sequestered by, say, a change in management practices, as well as the permanence of that carbon

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the opportunity to clarify, and also for the reminder to slow down. I appreciate both. The state of the science right now is that we currently measure soil carbon using soil probes, soil sensors, which require people walking into the field and actually taking soil sam

Agriculture committee  Thank you. What a great opportunity. In these brief comments, I'd like to lay out four points for you to ensure that Canada uses advanced agri-food technologies to both expand exports, which was the question I was asked to ponder, and at the same time be a global leader in what

Agriculture committee  I'm happy to engage in that conversation. There's a tremendous amount of new stuff that universities, like the University of Guelph, can and are doing. I'm leading an experiential workplace to education program for undergrads and graduate students. We work regularly with NGOs

Agriculture committee  It's a superb question, so thank you. In terms of alignment, yes, you have to make things align. This is one of the big concerns I've had for the last eight or nine months. It feels like the national food guide and the national food policy are being developed on parallel tracks,

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I'll be very brief, Lloyd, but you're identifying an extraordinarily complicated issue. I'll say three things. First of all, there are different ways of constituting some sort of governance structure, such as an act of Parliament. Outside of an act of Parliament, there are diff

Agriculture committee  I would like to thank you for the invitation, and also congratulate all of you, and Minister MacAulay, for taking leadership on this. I have been involved in a number of the consultations and I've been delighted by this. I was delighted by the discussion that I heard, both in the