Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for coming here today.
In Nova Scotia, where I'm from, when you talk about egg producers or dairy producers, there is a minimum number you should be at to make an operation viable. We say you should have between 15,000 to 18,000 layers because of the size of the barn, and maybe with dairy cows you should have a minimum of 40 to 50 dairy cows milking.
I don't know if 4-H is very strong in Quebec, but it's very strong in Ontario. We had the 4-H people talking about, and you alluded to, the interests of non-farm people coming out of agricultural university or really wanting to get into farming. What would it take? You are talking about the marketing boards helping. If I were a young person wanting to start up a laying operation of 15,000 or 18,000, or a dairy farm, what would it cost? And right now, how would the two levels of government or the marketing boards help me to get one of those operations?