Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Maria and gentlemen, thank you very much for being here today. It's really nice to be in P.E.I. I heard some great comments here.
I had a couple of questions for people from the potato industry. That's going to give me time to ask my other ones, because there are many.
We have heard some comments here that are consistent with what we heard this morning in Nova Scotia about regional programs. Probably the bureaucracy might tell us that it's impossible to have a national program, but even some of the comments we heard in the west last week are making me think that we need to think more along those lines. We're a big country and very diverse, not just in culture but also definitely in agriculture and geography. I think that's something we hear.
Charlie was just talking about the money that goes into agriculture. The previous government, to its record in its last year, put more money into agriculture, and this government has done the same in the last two budgets. Scott, you made a comment that throwing money at it just isn't the only answer; you have to do it with a vision and a plan. That's definitely a problem and has been for years. We need to hear some more ways to do that.
Maria, I very much enjoyed your comments. It shows the passion that is there, as John said, in the young sector.
You mentioned price floors. I think there's a problem there. There's looking at the domestic food supply and having food security, basically, for our domestic use. One of the problems government and the industry have is that we export a lot out of this country--not in every commodity, but in a lot of them. Would you have any ideas on how we would deal with that issue? Is that something that young farmers have touched on, or anybody else sitting here?