Thank you.
Just in wrapping up, there seems to have been a fair discussion here--maybe even more today than we've heard in some places--about the size of family farms. I think your positions on family farms are pretty well the same, with maybe the exception of Ian.
My grandfather raised 10 kids on a hundred-acre farm and had a hundred-acre bushlot that he sold a bit of firewood from. He worked a bit off the farm, but basically fed his family from it. My dad raised seven of us and had between 1,500 and 2,000 acres. I raised my three sons on close to 3,000 acres. I don't think there's any correlation between the size of farms and the smaller size of families, but there is that trend there.
But I don't know how you regulate the size of farms. With my operation, over the last five years our sons grew up and started working the farm. My wife and I calved out our 300 cows and kept our 500 backgrounders. We did that ourselves and had a little bit of part-time help with seeding and haying. That's the way it is. I can look back to the days when my dad was just starting out, or when I was a kid, and he had 200 or 300 acres. I can say those were the good old days, but I'm a realist, too, even if I am a sentimentalist. So we have to look at that side of it.
I have a private member's bill that would basically restrict publicly traded companies from having access to the same government programs that you as producers would. I'd like some feedback on that, both negative and positive. It wouldn't exclude a corporate family farm or restrict the size of the family farm--just publicly traded corporations. So I'd like to hear some comments on that.
Kate, you mentioned caps on quotas in the supply management sector. I don't know if you can add to that. I understand that's a concern for the dairy industry. I hear more and more from dairy producers in my riding about how the young guys and women can get into it.
I'd like to hear your comments on that.