Thank you for that wonderful opening. I thought I was talking too fast before, but apparently I wasn't.
Thank you for that, and Mr. Chairman, if I may, there certainly are additional things we could do. I did mention briefly that there's an opportunity for the Canadian government to do some advertising and promoting of Canadian farm products—not just cherries. I think that would be wonderful.
We also need help in developing offshore markets. There are a few opportunities left in the world: China, Japan, Brazil. We're already working with Stockwell Day. We've met with him about trying to get into China. But you know, at any opportunity, any member of government can fit Canadian food products into the beginnings of the other trade agreements that are going on—we'd certainly like you to slide cherries in there right at the top—and things like that.
Also, there's the recent movement in British Columbia toward a combined HST tax. We've been working on that forever, and we think it's a really positive thing and that the farmers are ultimately going to benefit from it.
There are also things like the environmental farm plan, under the Growing Forward framework. It's an excellent, excellent entry level program into food safety and environmental stewardship programs, which give us an opportunity to tell our Canadian consumers that we're growing with a conscience and we're aware of the impacts on the environment.
I guess that's it. Thank you very much for that, sir.