Agriculture committee  We had a commission on the future of agriculture. A lot of what you've talked about came out in that, trying to brand P.E.I., and I'm optimistic that we'll make some progress. But we have to recognize the core problem in agriculture. If you go into a grocery store, there are 50,0

Agriculture committee  Essentially a lot of farmers in the NFU are of the opinion that the current domestic food system is totally broken. So this is an alternative strategy, not a solution for everybody, but a system that's based on fairly traded coffee and bananas. We're used to that on an internatio

Agriculture committee  They're nothing but a bunch of bandits. We're essentially trying to develop, as a group of producers and consumers, a model that's different from what we have now.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I agree entirely with Mike's observation on CAIS. AgriStability, and CAIS prior to that, were designed and might have worked in a normally functioning market. It just does not work whenever the margins are chronically low. I looked at the P.E.I. agriculture insurance statis