To pick up on what Mr. Lapierre was saying, it is quite often the vendors who finance the acquisition of the farm by the next generation. As Mr. Marcoux was explaining, it takes a very significant amount of shares in farming in order to get a return. Therefore, the current generation almost always finances the transfer of farms to the next generation. Whether we are talking about the grains sector, supply management or any other sector, the price of land, quotas, shares do not allow the purchaser to fully finance the acquisition through the bank. It is the current generation that finances the next generation.
For the next generation, market prices are the main problem. We are able to maintain the number of farms we have through supply management because it offers a price that more or less corresponds to our production costs. For other productions, the difficulty is the market price and the insecurity that comes with it.
I think that in the framework of international negotiations, especially since they tend to drag on, Canada should play a role in addressing the way in which market prices are regularized for farmers throughout the world. It is a global problem. Farmers are suffering because of the prices they are getting and more and more people are going hungry. Stabilizing commodities prices is a global problem.