I'll just make one quick comment. I think the very fact that the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which is an umbrella organization that represents farming organizations right across this country, supports this.... If we have people in the grains and oilseeds sector who are appearing and saying that this is important, I think it should raise a flag. This is a flexibility program; it's a component of a program. It's an insurance, in my words, to make sure that we can help our farmers get through these tough times when they can't, as they move on to do all these wonderful things and take part in all these other programs that are there that Pierre had mentioned. It's not either/or. We need to have our farmers on a level playing field and we need to help them stand up. As one pork producer said in our committee a number of meetings ago, help us compete with foreign governments. And that's what we have to do. It's our obligation to help our farmers compete with foreign governments, specifically the U.S. government.
On November 19th, 2009. See this statement in context.