Feel free: the longer you work, the harder you work, the more you can make.
In the last few years, I think what we're seeing is that if you're a farmer who's probably in his mid-forties and up, you went through the early 1980s at 20% interest rates, and it wasn't just agriculture, every business did. Some never recovered from it, as we're aware. I think the worst thing that could happen today would be a large fluctuation in interest rates. I just don't think agriculture--or, as far as that goes, the economy--could take it.
I think some of the best farm managers out there are the ones who existed through that time. If you could afford to pay 20% interest rates and you're still here today, you did something right.
I also think we're looking at a world market. I don't think we're the only country with these problems. I think it's a worldwide thing. I think we can solve some problems here for ourselves, but we have to be very careful what we do when it comes to world trade negotiations.
I also think there are a lot of problems even between federal and provincial governments. We would like to see more streamlining of programs. In the syrup industry we were federally inspected by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. We are federally registered. The provincial government came out with a program, and the only way to get in on it was to drop your federal registration. We did, because we thought it was a good deal, but at the end we wrote a letter to both levels of government saying they need to work together.
Adam is going to speak on a few things.