The Canadian Federation of Agriculture has developed a national food strategy, and part of that strategy looks at both the exported food we produce and the domestically used food. It's very hard for us to balance, even as an organization, those two sides of our food production in Canada. I believe our national food strategy looks at this. The national food strategy is meant to make policies, much as as this discussion that we're having today is about business management programs, market access, and all of these things. Let's move this beyond the five-year window we're looking at in Growing Forward 2. Let's move this to a ten-year window, let's move this further out so we have a better view of where we want to be further out. That's what the national food strategy is about. We as a country have to realize that we have both domestic and export markets to meet, and that strategy has to address both of them.
On December 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.