Gentlemen, thank you all for taking time out of your schedules to be with us today.
I am going to ask either Michael or Darcy the first question. Whoever feels comfortable can answer, or both of you can answer. It's with respect to succession planning.
The Canadian Bankers Association came before our committee in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago, if not last week. We talked about succession planning issues. Yesterday, in Kelowna, we heard the same about the problem of succession from one generation down to the next, to a certain degree, but more so, from one sibling over to another sibling when the same opportunities and the same tax incentives aren't there.
I was just thinking about what ideas you might have to incentivize the transition from one generation to the next, even to someone non-related. If somebody wants to buy your farm, and you don't have a child or another relative who wants to do it, they would be provided some opportunity, through capital gains exemptions or a deferral of the capital gains of some sort, if the promise and commitment were made to continue to farm for 10 or 15 years, or that kind of thing.
Do you have any thoughts on that, and do you propose to make some lobbying efforts or propositions to the government?