We look at the era of cheap food as being over. We, as farmers, cannot afford to produce cheap food any more. Yes, our prices have improved for grains, oilseeds, and livestock, but we must remind ourselves that we're still not back to the 2003 level of cattle prices in this country, and our input prices have gone up. With our grains and oilseeds, we've seen a little slackening recently.
Where we're coming from, in the Atlantic region, is that we can't stress enough the importance of our safety net programs. We must keep them. Our first line of defence, of course, is the crop insurance, which mostly looks after the weather-related problems because, you are right, Mother Nature does win. We saw it in the maritime region this fall, where we've had a tremendous amount of rain and a very poor growing season in July that affected a lot of our crops. We can't stress enough how important that is.
Thank you.