Speaking to the question of having agriculture as just a federal issue and not a provincial issue, Canada is such a diverse country, and Ottawa is a long way away. I'm sure you appreciate this after you've flown out here. It's hard to get a view across to Ottawa sometimes as to what the B.C. issues are, and it's probably no different at the other end of the country. It's easy to go to Victoria and easy to talk to your agriculture minister; you see him. The closer they are to home, the easier it is for you to talk to them and convince them of what the issues are.
Having an agriculture minister and not having a provincial minister of agriculture would make it very challenging to get our points of view across. As a cattlemen's association, we have a strong national organization and a strong voice, which would help, but there are other organizations out there that don't have a strong national voice and would be very challenged by having just a national minister of agriculture.