Thank you, everyone.
I won't give you much preliminary to my question, because we have a short amount of time.
Greg just hit on a motion, actually, that I had before Parliament. Not everyone supported it, but it got passed. It's about those very issues. I'm hoping we can move ahead with it, through the ministers and through the ministry, CFIA, PMRA, and the veterinary drugs directorate.
This is also about the future of beginning farmers. I'm looking down the table, and everyone here actually has family coming in, or you are the family that's in, and there are some who have little ones who are likely to as well at some point in time. I'm wondering about succession planning. What do you do?
Secondly, do you see a future in agriculture? All of you here have parents, or you're the ones.... Is it positive? Is it only going to be positive because you're going to rely on government programs? Is that what makes agriculture the attractive thing that everyone has talked about in terms of this being what you want to be doing, and you all want it?
You talked about his sister being gone. I have three children who chose other careers.
So is there a future in agriculture? Is there a difference in supply management and non-supply management in the availability of credit? Brian, you have both. In a business that is both supply management and not, is there a difference in terms of being able to access that credit from one to the other, and what can we do if it isn't? And I don't know if we can.
Secondly, should government programs keep everybody in? Is there a benchmark? Some would say maybe we should be able to get a certain percentage of our income from programs. For beginning farmers, those who are there, what we have now in terms of some of the things...? There's $750,000 and a capital gains exemption. We've tried to deal with taxes and keeping more money in people's pockets. Do they help? Or what should we be doing?
There are enough questions there. I'll leave it at that for now.
Brian, I'd like you to start, and then some of the others can jump in.