Quickly to the point, we were having a little discussion here, because we need to put something on the table. We need to go from this meeting knowing what it is you really want from us.
I believe that in the long term, unless we as a country, as a nation, believe in a national food strategy, unless we, as governments of any stripe, whoever they are, accept that principle, that we believe in the security of our food system here as much as we believe in a national defence policy.... If we don't ever come to that point, we'll never come to support agriculture, because we can import it. You know, and all of us know, we can import anything we want, and probably a lot cheaper than we can grow it here.
Now, either we get on with this issue of a strategy or we get on with importing it. We have a choice to make and I think the time is now.