I have just seven minutes to tell you about Quebec's experience. There are farms—the producers visited us yesterday—that do secondary and tertiary processing. They do it directly on the farm.
In Quebec, there is an organization called Les Amis de la Terre, the friends of the earth. They are farmers, such as yourself, with a Web site. People in the city can go to the site and buy from the farmers directly. Once a week, farmers bring their products to points of service, and consumers buy them.
That started in 2005—I was elected in 2004. It started with 5 producers and around 20 customers. Today, there are 80 producers and more than 2,000 customers. More and more, people in the city are realizing that their food is coming from the outside. But it requires marketing. It is a matter of food sovereignty, that is very important.
Would you be interested in creating a friends of the earth type system? The advantage of such a system is that it is region-based. So the Quebec City region cannot sell to the Eastern Townships, which cannot sell to the Gaspé Peninsula. It is local. Products are bought locally. The educational information is local, as are the explanations of the greenhouse gases, survival and product quality.
Would you not be tempted to get a similar system going to educate people in your cities?