Thanks, Chair.
What I'll say is that Mr. Bellavance and all members of the committee know that the committee is fully capable of acting independently of the government and should be acting independently of the government. There are many motions where the government already has a position on something but this committee chooses to study it anyway.
In fact, look at some of the motions coming up today. Mr. Easter has a motion on prison farm operations. The government has studied this. The government has done consultation on this, but there's a motion here for the committee to look at this. There's something on business risk management being part of AgriFlexibility. There are all sorts of things the government has studied as the government, but this committee chooses to conduct its own study. If it's important to the committee, the committee should study it. And I think that's where Mr. Shipley's coming from, and that's where I'm coming from on this amendment.
The future of farming is very important to this committee. This is what I'm certainly hearing when I speak to farmers. They are very concerned that the youth are not getting involved. So as farmers get older, what happens to that family farm when the present farmer is no longer able to farm, for whatever reason? I think it's very important and I think this committee should study that.