Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be splitting my time with a former outstanding young farmer, Mr. Hoback.
I think you can see some of the frustrations that we have. We need to talk to farmers like yourselves who are actually on the ground rather than lobby groups like the NFU. We need to listen to what farmers are telling us. We need to increase our trade, but it's a terribly complex thing that we can't encapsulate in five minutes.
We have to increase food security. Moreover, we have to do what we as a government did with the Colombia free trade agreement and ensure better standards for human rights and pay equity. Then they will be on a more level playing field with our farmers. Generally, one of the big export problems is that our farmers aren't on a level playing field, because of the regulatory burden they are held to here in Canada.
I don't want to get into all the partisan stuff. Glen is from my riding, and I'm going to keep my questions to him. Glen, you're a successful farmer in our area, and I've known you for a long time. You've been big in hogs. You have moved more into grains and oilseeds. One of the things that we as a government have done is “product of Canada.” We've said that we need to have a gold standard—we need the product itself to be at least 98% Canadian.
We believe that Canadians and people around the world will buy the Canadian standard. Do you think that's a good step? Do you like keeping the standards relatively high for Canadian content?