Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you very much for coming here, ladies and gentlemen.
To you, Leona, I appreciate the efforts you're putting in for the young farmers of Canada. I think it's very, very important for the long-term viability of agriculture.
I have one question, and I don't want you to answer right away but think about it a bit. What is the one single best or biggest thing that government could do to help not only attract people to agriculture but to keep them there by keeping it viable?
I have three sons who aren't going to farm. They're not going to take over the farm, and that's fine. They're working. You see a lot more of that.
To the two other gentlemen—Eric, you made one comment that had to do with—and I missed a bit of what you had said and I'd like to hear what you mean by it—producer disincentives to business risk management. Could you comment a little bit on that?
There's another thing I'd like maybe all of you to comment on, which came up in our meetings yesterday in British Columbia and has come up before, about country of origin, truth in labelling, this kind of thing. There are mixed feelings, I think, in different commodity groups on whether we should do it or not. I've always, personally, as a beef producer, been a supporter of it. We haven't always had that unified approach. So I'd like to hear some comments on that.
Also, on the biofuels area, which you touched on, I think one thing that society out there today wants, generally, is that we, not just as farmers but as governments, as politicians, have to do something with the environment. We can't change that. That's what is expected today. So while there will be obstacles such as rising feed costs in the livestock industry, we have to find ways to cope with them.
You know, it's like an alcoholic. The first thing is admitting that there's a problem. We have a problem there. That will be one of the negative sides to the biofuel industry. We have to learn to cope, as industry and as government, to deal with that.
So I'll turn it back and we'll hear your comments to those questions.