I'll try to be as brief as possible. That's a huge question, and I think it raises a number of issues around food sovereignty and those kinds of things. The reality is that as a Nordic country we raise certain commodities, probably better than others, but there aren't a lot of orange groves in Alberta or Quebec, so we import those products. What do we do to balance that lack of food sovereignty on some sides of things? I'm using citrus crops as one example. We do a darn good job of growing barley, canola, wheat, and with our beef and pork industry. Why not sell those products in places like California?
The idea that we can simply support ourselves and live like an island is an interesting idea, but it's pretty impractical. We can get away with a lot fewer farmers, and the shrinkage that Wayne talked about is real. But the fact is, if we don't export 70% of our wheat, if we don't export 60% of our canola, we can sow those acres to alfalfa or something else or set them aside. But we won't need any people in the countryside to grow anything then. We can depopulate a good portion of rural Canada if we want to quit exporting. That's the bottom line.
If we're not fierce about competing and fierce about working our way through this and selling value-added products and doing those kinds of things, I think we'll be looking at shrinking it down to that, which I see as a big failure.