Thanks very much, gentlemen, for being here.
Mr. Kirtzinger, in one of your three points, you mentioned farming and profit focus, pruning farmers, business principles, and how this is not a social problem. My question to you—and I wouldn't mind comments from other people—is whether government at any level has a role in supporting rural Canada or the small farm. Does it have a role in supporting some kind of rail infrastructure? Or should it just be a side that's there to assist in disaster?
The implication is that if there's no other support, many of our farms will continue to die out. That will have an effect on small communities unless we bring something else in. We're left with efficient farms, but not a lot, and those are big ones.
I'm wondering if I could get some comments from you and others on this topic.