Good. Let us run through this real fast.
We need to begin the difficult transition away from imported food--and by imported, I mean imported from other parts of Canada into our marketplace.
The beef industry will launch its strategy plan in the first week of June. The industry is committed to a new way of doing business and an approach dedicated to the principles that Nova Scotia will be better off when Nova Scotians put food in our own stores and on our tables.
This can be nothing more than strategic right now. In creating stability and encouraging growth and change, we need a climate that allows and invites people to invest in a better future.
A crisis is an awful thing to waste. We would like a partnership with the federal government at the table and somehow define how we can take advantage of this present crisis, for all of our producers.
Thank you.