That is the spirit of our brief: for the future of agriculture and the next generation of farmers, we have to develop a new mentality and truly come up with a long-term agriculture policy. Today we are suffering the effects of the choices that were made some 15 years ago, in the early 1990s, when the public agriculture research policy and income security underwent significant cuts. Just consider the disappearance of the Gross Revenue Insurance Program, or GRIP. Major cuts were made to public research in agriculture.
Beyond programs, we specifically need to have a long-term vision including an income security policy and a research policy. That is what we wanted to reflect in our brief. Research will help us increase our productivity, at least in the grain sector, where we are having difficulty with our productivity. We also need to have a long-term policy for income security instead of ad hoc programs that are created for the short term.