Maybe I'll just touch a little bit on that, as we're getting into land use and stuff like that. That really needs to be something that municipalities look at. Be very careful. We get the same thing out west with how the Hutterites are going to eat up all the land and eventually they'll be doing all the farming.
The key here, and it gets right back to what we're here for, is how do we make farming competitive and farmers competitive so that we can make a living? Farmers are pretty independent cusses, and we'll figure out a way to make a buck on something if we possibly can, if there isn't something in our way like regulations, impediments, market signals, etc. I don't really care what the market says the price of something is. For instance, if the price of barley is $1.75 and I know I need $2.50 a bushel to grow it, I won't grow barley that year—unless I have to for a rotational reason, but generally not. Farmers are pretty good at adjusting for that type of thing. We need to think about how to make it competitive enough that farmers want to be farming.
I had to encourage my own son not to become a farmer because he couldn't make a living at it. He's teaching, and he can make a living teaching and farming part-time. It's unfortunate. We're losing a lot of the kids who have the experience and would like to farm.
So how do we do that? One of the things is we need to stop this fixation as Canadians that our only opportunity is to export a raw product. That's crazy. We have to have exports, for sure. We should be value adding and keeping those jobs in Canada so that we keep communities employed, people employed, farmers employed. We have situations right now where I cannot grow my own grain and establish my own business using wheat or barley to produce a product. I'm not allowed to. I have to sell that through the Wheat Board and buy back my own danged grain. This is nuts. What kind of a system is that? How am I going to add value? We tried to have a prairie pasta plant where people owned their own grain to put into their own plant, and they weren't allowed to do that. We need to get those impediments out of the way.
Value adding would help us a lot.