I'd like to thank you, Bev, for bringing this up. However, I have some concerns, and I'll share them with you. As André said, I think this is a very broad umbrella for a committee study. I'm concerned. Once we finish this series, what we have, and after Christmas and all of the spring, going right up to June, talking about the future of farming..... I would like to see it limited to a set period of time, like a month, for example, and zero in on some specific topics under that. I believe that one of the major stumbling blocks to the future of farming is farm income, and I think until that problem is seriously addressed and solved, there's no future.
If we can somehow amend the motion--in other words, have a more specific set-up, a period of time, a maximum period of time, zero in on some specific topics, say, one week on income, one week on young farmers, just zero it in and tighten it up--I think it could be a really good study. We've spent a long time on competition, and I think a lot of things are interwoven. So I would like to see this done, but with specific topics so that we can finish that and move on. I would suggest a maximum of one month to do this.
I would just like to throw that out to my fellow committee members.