I'll start quickly to say that industry feels very strongly that it should be setting the policy for agriculture in this country. It should not be government's job. Industry has to take on that responsibility. I get very frustrated when we sit around a table and point fingers at government and say "Why doesn't government have a strategy for agriculture?", when agriculture doesn't have one itself.
So we have to take responsibility and set the policy for that. Then we need government to listen. I think industry has been trying to do that, somewhat unsuccessfully, but right now there is an initiative going on through the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. They are working very hard to bring in a wide range of industry stakeholders, not just primary producers but processors, retailers, consumers, other farm organizations, not just the CFA. The list goes on. Bring everyone together and say we have a country here that wants to have food security, and as an industry we have to get our ducks in a row, set some long-term goals, a vision, a strategy, and go to government and say this is what we want to have happen and here's the part that we as industry are going to play; now we need government to set the policy to make it happen.
That process is under way, but what we're really going to need, when everyone comes to the table, is to have government say that they really want to work with us to make our strategy happen. We'd really like to see that happen.