Thank you, Chair.
And thank you, folks, for being here, and to our friends in Charlottetown as well, who are obviously not here, but are certainly with us on the screen.
It seems that at either end of the table we're hearing something similar, albeit maybe put differently by Mr. Toews and Mr. Wipf, about business risk management tools and the point that we should be looking more at the market. Everybody wants that to happen, obviously. That is the logical thing to do. When one has a business enterprise, one expects it to stand on its own two feet and eventually to get to a point where it makes a profit and achieves returns for the hard work, etc.
As much as it's ideologically sound and very rational, is this doable in your mind? Here I'll go to Mr. Toews first and then move to Mr. Wipf. Is this doable based on the nature of variables we inherently can't control—neither you as farmers nor anyone else for that matter—when we have a product based on the weather? The last time I checked, Mother Nature always wins, no matter what we try.
This is a conundrum for me, to be honest, so I'd appreciate your thoughts.