Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We definitely need the farmers to be at the decision-making level, as Lynn talks about, because we've been left out too long. I can't give you an answer to the question, but I want to give you an example.There are two men standing in a field in a sparsely populated area in southern Alberta.

Agriculture committee  Quality control may also have something to do with it. In fact, west of Fort Macleod, they feed horses for Japan and they send them live to Japan. The Japanese want to do their own butchering and they want to know what they're getting. They don't want frozen beef or anything else, so that's another thing.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. When we as farmers have a day a week to work through the paperwork to keep going, how can a visitor know what rural agriculture in Canada looks like? When I drove back from Edmonton a few years ago, I looked out the window of my car and I said, “What a beautiful country.