I had a conversation with a very knowledgeable and experienced researcher a while back. I posed that question to him: what happens if we stop doing research in Canada in the poultry industry?
He said we're probably okay for eight or 10 years. We can steal from other places, innovate, do some fancy stuff, but after that we'll hit the wall, especially with the changes that are going on all the time. We have to do our own research, because there are unique characteristics to our country that will catch up to us.
As Mr. Lintott said, this is the time; we need to be moving.