Thanks, Mr. Chair.
It's certainly good to be in New Brunswick, our home province, one of the best ones in Canada.
What we heard in the presentations this morning certainly reflects a lot of thought and a lot of concerns and some very new ideas. It appears that the finances and the debt capitalization of farms is a major factor—what you can carry.
Robert, you've been in two industries now, and it seems that your love of farming has overcome your original intentions in forestry.
Forestry, Mr. Chair, is a big factor here in New Brunswick. It's sometimes sad to see that some of our better farmland is being converted back to growing trees. I see a lot of that in my own constituency, in the Belledune and Jacquet River area.
Mr. Kilfoil talked about crisis now, and he used certain visions about prosperity—sometime soon, I hope. With that, he talked about the need for growth, the need for research, the need for innovation, and built those around business risk management and all of that.
In terms of growth through research and innovation, are governments putting enough attention towards research and innovation? Have the new concepts that have developed in research, we'll say about 10 years ago, helped your industries here? Or has it been more difficult for you to see real results from the research, which is often done by major players rather than back at the farm level and within your own community?