With the exception of Saskatchewan that has a lot of them, local communities used to be able to sustain themselves in the past. Actually, our dependence on export or import makes us slightly more vulnerable. We have put our resources aside and we choose to focus on exports because they are profitable.
We have created an imbalance in our markets and we have lost sight of our agriculture's primary objective, which is to feed our communities. I can give you examples from Alberta because I lived there for four years. Falher, in the north, Saint-Isidore and Peace River are all small communities that are able to sustain themselves, as they always have. That was not the case in the 1980s when they decided to give their food products to the world's large distributors, some of whom used it freely, I believe.