Thank you very much to all of you for being here.
I'm just going to throw some questions out, since we are looking at the future of farming. We're hoping that Nathan, once he finishes his course at the agriculture technology institute, will be able to continue farming if that's a desire. There are other young people who can continue, so we have to look at the future, obviously.
I'd just like to talk about the area of food sovereignty, which we've touched upon. My colleague from the Bloc talked about that. I've been talking to some people across the country, doing a tour and getting some feedback to try to put something together. One of the themes coming through is that many farmers are saying trade has had a negative effect on them. In spite of the fact that we have free trade agreements such as NAFTA, we still have the border closed with B.C., we have the COOL program, we have fruit and vegetable producers who can't make money because products are being dumped in the country. Some are going so far as to say that maybe we should take agriculture out of trade, but obviously that's not realistic. Then we have different standards from different countries, which you've mentioned a number of times here.
So the question I have is, in addition to comments on what I've said.... You know, the supply management sector is working for the poultry industry, the dairy industry, and the egg industry. The question that's been thrown around for other sectors of agriculture is if this is viable. Is this a viable alternative to make sure that we don't have to depend on more markets and trade, and we can have our farmers produce good quality food in Canada? That's providing we can get rid of those interprovincial barriers. I'd like to ask a question on that later.
Let me just throw that out, and if I have some time I'd like to ask other questions. Anybody?