Let me just ask you this. If a nation were part of the nation called Canada, if we as a nation believe that food security—food sovereignty is probably a better term—is something that we need to be striving for, and we need to have that as a sort of over-arching premise from which we develop all farm programs, if that were to be the case, would we not be able to develop better programs, knowing that, first of all, we believe in food security, whether that's the way we produce it, the way we allow other imports into this country? All of our programs would then fit around that. Would that not be a good premise, an ideal to strive for? We haven't said that. We've assumed it; we've never really said that.
On April 25th, 2007. See this statement in context.