Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mrs. Valdez. The one that I've seen work time and time again is universal school meals for children, providing free and healthy meals for all children in schools without some system of choosing who is worthy and who is not worthy. To really make it work, connect schoo

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Turnbull. I had sent it earlier, but I will resend it to make sure you all have it.

Agriculture committee  The right to food, if looking at the international treaty and the guidelines, focuses everyone's attention—and we've heard stuff like this today—on the importance of sharing knowledge and technology and of international co-operation, but, most of all, it focuses on who has the po

Agriculture committee  I'll talk in terms of policy and maybe leave it to you all to find Canada's role. What often happens in these supply chains is that corporations will rely on child labour, but because they're not directly hiring the children, they say, “Well, we don't know. We have no control.”

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. El‑Khoury. What can Canada do? At the UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome, it can play a leadership role and bring countries together. We're all pushing now in Rome over the next few months at the Committee on World Food Security for it to be the place fo

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question. To clarify, I am an independent expert. It's a volunteer position. I'm one of the few players in these rooms, at times, who can speak freely. What I don't have in resources, I have in freedom. I have been invited to brief the Security Council. When

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Perron. Unfortunately, I can't speak too specifically to the debt level of Canadian producers. What I can speak to is the debt level of governments all over the world. I do agree with your point. The only way transformation is going to happen—the only way food

Agriculture committee  Okay, will do. I agree that business as usual—producing more by any means necessary—is not the way to go. Generally, on a global scale, we have produced more than enough food. The problem is, how do we produce? There are solutions to point to. I provide those specific solutio

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Perron. I'd agree in terms of focusing on small producers, but I would add that, ideally, it's the small producers who are committed to practices that enhance biodiversity and that also respect human rights, such as workers' rights, women's rights and indigenous p

Agriculture committee  I would add, Monsieur Perron, that I think it's not just supply management, but stabilizing prices more broadly. There are a lot of tools. Supply management is an important one. I think the Canadian experience is something that can be shared. More importantly, what has been mis

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question, Mr. Turnbull. Most definitely they do. As I mentioned, and I'll expand upon on it, even if the war ended tomorrow and the pandemic ended tomorrow, we'd still be in a food crisis. The war in Ukraine, to build on what a previous witness said, exacerbat

Agriculture committee  Indeed, I think I would wholeheartedly agree with that. Again, to give you a specific example, the problem with fertilizers and genetically modified seeds from a market perspective—there is an ecological problem, of course, and we can talk about that—is that it creates a depende

Agriculture committee  Thank you, everybody. As the UN special rapporteur, I am the eyes, ears and good conscience of the UN system when it comes to the right to food. That means that the UN Human Rights Council has mandated me to regularly report to them and the UN General Assembly on matters regardi