Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Gentlemen, thank you very much for coming here today and sharing your different views, particularly you, Mr. Wiseman, for making the effort to come here from Newfoundland. There had to be some adjusting, and I personally would have liked to go to Newfoundland. Anyway, thanks for coming here.
I am a farmer, and I think there are a number of farmers around the table here, gentlemen. I think I'm probably the only one who's been on both sides of supply management. I milked cows in the eighties, and I've also been on the other side, the free or open market side, whatever you want to call it.
Listening to some of your comments, Mr. Fuller, I know in the beef industry we have the same problem, that basically you can bring in New Zealand beef here and stick a knife in it and all of a sudden it becomes a product of Canada. So I understand where you're coming from. The reason I bring this up is to point out that the chicken industry isn't the only one going through that. I guess as a producer for years and a member of different farm groups, I've always been bewildered why it is that way. But there are reasons, and they're very complicated.
I would ask that government and the two different sectors, supply management and non-supply management, work together on this, instead of butting heads. There's no doubt that this government, the previous government, and all political parties support supply management. We have a very, very complex job of trying to satisfy both sides of it, if I can use those simple terms, and it isn't easy. But I can tell you that the support is unequivocally there. Obviously there are some disagreements on how we get there, but that support is there.
Mr. Wiseman, you made a couple of comments. One was on training of our young farmers and what have you—indeed, your group is key to the sustainability of agriculture. Other than that hands-on approach you talked about in learning how to drive the tractor from your parents, the same as I did, what suggestions were you looking at as far as training of young farmers is concerned?
Also, you talked about strategic growth. Although this meeting is about business risk management, and this is going to take us away from that, we do like to grow. So I'd like to hear a few more comments on exactly what involvement you were looking for from the government to help grow those sectors as well.