Agriculture committee  We are in agreement that if that applies to everyone, it is true that no one will be able to take advantage. We must simply determine who will be able to transfer their business and who will dismantle it. If it applies to everyone, it means that someone who dismantles his busine

Agriculture committee  On your first question, over 10 years, if people said they wouldn't transfer to the farm, the money would go back to the government. So it's only to influence the transfer over the.... As far as dismantling is concerned, does this create speculation or an artificial price? I do

Agriculture committee  As Mr. Groleau was saying earlier, people rarely transfer their business to anyone other than family. Financial gain is a much stronger motivator and the farmer therefore dismantles the business instead of transferring it. People rarely transfer their farms. I knew a few, but the

Agriculture committee  It is specific to production. For hatching eggs there is a similar program to the one for table eggs. Poultry producers have a similar program, as do strawberry and raspberry growers. Other producers who are not under supply management do not have any programs. There are some who

Agriculture committee  That is because they are just trying to survive. Farmers are in a very precarious situation. As I was saying earlier, I know young people who are in pork production, who studied pork production in university and who made the rational choice not to take over the family pork busine

Agriculture committee  Farms.

Agriculture committee  To pick up on that, over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about preparing for a transfer. It takes a great deal of time to prepare for a transfer. Nonetheless, there is an increasing trend to use the term “sustainable enterprise”. An enterprise that is sustainable

Agriculture committee  It is a question of helping young people acquire a business at a lower price. People who transfer their business rely heavily on the value of the assets. Farmers are not in the habit of putting money aside. The goal is to encourage farmers to invest in a retirement fund. If they

Agriculture committee  The problem is that people who leave farming are very dependent on the value of the business. That is quite normal. Everyone advises us to invest in the business. Very little money is invested in RRSPs for example. The idea is to ensure that we are less dependent on the value of

Agriculture committee  Yes. People who come from abroad have more financial means than we do. The return on farmland assets in Quebec is roughly 7%. The return on the stock market over the past 25 years has not been as good. If I had the money, I would invest in farmland too. If we were talking about

Agriculture committee  The Government of Quebec announced that solution in its budget in the middle of March. It wants to move forward in that direction. People want to invest in agriculture. We have to see whether this will become reality and if it does, how it will work. If young people cannot have a

Agriculture committee  I am completely in favour of that. However, it should be noted that someone who plans their business transfer very well will pay between 3% and 11% tax on the total business value. We must indeed facilitate the transfer, but there is also the problem of the economic value of the

Agriculture committee  As I was saying earlier, on one hand, what we are proposing is similar to the education savings plan. On the other hand, we believe that we must, in a way, favour transfers over dismantlement and encourage investment... It is a matter of getting the value out of the shares that

Agriculture committee  I will leave it to my colleagues to talk about the structural programs in the day to day economic context, since they are much more familiar with those programs than I am. I want to go off topic a bit here and say that the federal government does not offer anything to young farm

Agriculture committee  I could go on about this at length. In my opinion, pork producers have not given this much thought in the past few years. There were a number of startups in the beef production industry, but this trend seems to be dropping off. What strikes me in pork production and in any other