Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. That is exactly the challenge and the exact reason why there are multiple departments involved. ITI's side tend to be more on the commercial production of food and in that sense, wanting to ensure that we're doing everything we can to promote and support the local production of food. So whether it's through the fishery, which has a fair bit of investment from ITI in it, as well as obviously commercial agriculture which has different scales, you know, and can be everything from greenhouses to community gardens, which involves ECE on the community garden front. And then -- but then you do have an element of food security that is really poverty alleviation very specifically, and that is where Health and Social Services comes in. And a decision was made that they then would be the lead if that -- if we're looking at food security from that perspective, that they should, in fact, be the lead but in a way that's going to coordinate the efforts across all those departments on all of these initiatives to ensure that all are working together to the end goal of having more food available in the North, from the North, at more affordable rates. Thank you.
Caroline Wawzonek on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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