Paul Connors

Thank you. Thank you, Minister, for coming out today to answer some questions. Just a few months ago we were in my riding of Avalon in Newfoundland and Labrador, and we visited some local producers from the area. As we heard from them, food security in our province is somewhat unique because we depend so much on bringing produce and other things to our island. We produce only roughly 20% of [more]

Over the past couple of meetings, we did have some people at committee from Newfoundland and Labrador who are very supportive of food hubs and are quite willing to take those challenges on to develop food hubs in our province. I'm really glad there's support for those. I'm going to pass it over to my colleague now.

I'm going to ask a quick question. What infrastructure do you think is most urgently needed to address Nunavut food sovereignty or food security?

I think I have about a minute left.

Going to food security, it's been said that there's a huge northern food insecurity issue. How would you define food security for Nunavut? What would be your definition of having food security in Nunavut?

I thank all the witnesses for coming today. Ms. Caughey, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. We've used the terms “food sovereignty” and “food security”. Are they one and the same, in your opinion, or is there a difference between the two?

Thank you. I'm going to share my time with Mr. Cormier. Mr. White, we talked about the predation of salmon. You mentioned striped bass. Is there any other predation in Newfoundland and Labrador that you would consider?

Thanks very much. I'm going to pass it to Serge.

In your opening remarks, you mentioned a multipronged approach. What do you think are the top three things that should be done?

You said we need a multipronged approach. What would your three solutions be, or any solutions?