I'm just trying to understand. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, okay? Because what we have is an agricultural policy framework, an agreement between the provinces and the federal government that requires—simplified, shouldn't do this—six or seven other provinces to agree before we make any changes on business risk management programs.
So it's always about—Maria talked about it—“well, it's you; no, it's us”. And you guys are in the middle. That's sort of how it seems to work, and from a political standpoint, if that's what we want to accomplish, I guess that's an accomplishment. From our perspective at this table, about farmers and helping to give a future for farmers, it's not working.
As we've gone across, you would almost think that we need to look at the reorganization of responsibilities of the federal government, provincial governments, and local organizations in terms of does the federal government become responsible for food safety regulations and export markets. We're an export nation. In general, money transfers down and provinces run programs in some sort of respect. I don't know, but I'm just seeing that everywhere we stop, it's a concern. Are there thoughts on that?
And secondly, one of the common themes at every one I've been at—though I haven't been all across Canada—is this whole regulatory issue about.... Sally, you talked about it, and Maria and others talked about it. We have products coming into Canada. They meet our residue standards for food safety. Food safety is not necessarily the issue. But it is about them having access to products to grow these crops or grow the animals. We don't, but it comes and sits in direct competition with us. So I have a motion that is passed by Parliament dealing exactly with this, and I'm hoping that as a committee this type of regulation or motion can be ramped up in a recommendation from this one, because it doesn't matter what province you're in or what you're growing, it affects every one of us. I think that is a simple reliance on how does the federal government help producers at levelling the playing field, and I think that's what we're after.
Help me understand how we can get more profitability from the marketplace. Do we have to take more market risk to be part of the market benefit? How do we do that?