One cannot be against apple pie. However, my criticism with regard to the motions from my colleagues of the Conservative Party — this is not the first time we have seen this — is that because they are so broad, they will take up all of the Committee's time if we accept to tackle such studies.
As a matter of fact, it is somewhat similar to the competitiveness issue. We are still working on it, and we are going to have a very thick report.
It interests everyone and we all have good ideas to bring forward. However, if there were not problems at present with agriculture, this is the type of issue that we should study as a priority.
But given that right now — and to me the present is more important than the future as far as agriculture is concerned — there are serious problems, this is what we should be studying before studying the future of agriculture, particularly for young farmers.
One cannot be opposed to this type of motion, one cannot be opposed to the study of what is coming, of what our vision for agriculture should be, especially for young people.
However, right now, there is a whole stack of problems that we must study, and it is our duty to look into these matters. I do not need any reminders from you with regard to the situation of the hog industry and the beef industry — this whole program review issue, that has been put forward by the government, how things work at present, in order to determine if producers are benefiting from this or not.
I would like to put a question to my colleague who has presented the motion, Mr. Shipley.
Mr. Shipley, is it your wish to redo the Agriculture Policy Framework? You are aware that your government has adopted an agriculture policy framework for the next five years. It was my belief that this framework represented the government's vision for the next five years, including what should be done with regard to young farmers. What you are presenting to us amounts to saying that there is nothing and that you are going to try to put in place a vision.
Unless I am mistaken, there is presently in place an Agriculture Policy Framework for the next five years that was adopted by your government. My belief was that that was the vision and that we were moving in that direction.