Something dear to my heart.
They have in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Farm Progress Show, where they show off their 80-foot air seeders and all the new biotech equipment—all the great farming equipment—and they talk about this progress. There are farmers on the Prairies who grow 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 acres on one farm. When I grew up, in the 1950s, we raised eight children on a section of land--one section, four quarters--with about a 12-foot cultivator. This was in the 1950s, and we were using sprays and stuff like that. The rinks were full, the schools were full, and the communities were full. Now the communities are emptying. So is farm progress, progress? Is it progress for whom?
These same farmers, when they have a bad year, are up and down their highways with their hand out for the federal government to pay some money to bail them out. So it isn't working. We somehow have to find a way...we're talking about getting young farmers on the land. It's how we do agriculture. You have to zone farmland and keep it as farmland so that a young farmer doesn't have to compete with the industry to buy food. Once that land is under concrete--