I agree with Mike. The farming community has to come up with a vision of how we want to go. The government's job, in my perspective, is to facilitate that happening. Earlier I mentioned the fact that the provincial government was very helpful when I was going to trade in Japan. The federal government has been helpful as well. But for example, the embassy in Tokyo was not set up to answer my questions as a farmer. They were not used to farmers coming directly, just jumping on a plane and flying to Tokyo trying to find a market. They didn't know how to address it. What I was saying was that I wanted to go somewhere, find a market that wants to buy my stuff, and then I'd come back and see if I could grow it. Traditionally, we farmers always grow our stuff, then we wait for the phone to ring. If the phone doesn't ring, we're in big trouble. The system as it is right now makes it very difficult for farmers to go internationally to find markets.
I don't want to take away from the help. I have gotten assistance from the federal people in Charlottetown. They've actually been very helpful, except that the programs aren't necessarily in place to help.
I just wanted to make that point.