Absolutely.
I'm really in favour of the value chain approach, the cluster approach. An unconditional value is attached to that. Quebec was the first province to use it. The federal government has in a way followed the Quebec model. Ultimately, that's what's happened, and I'm happy about that. I believe it was a good idea in the context of the first strategic framework entitled Growing Forward.
However, we can't please everyone, for two reasons. First, we can't afford to. Second, to be competitive and to rely on economic growth, we absolutely have to allocate the necessary resources for a value chain to develop. So, yes, we're going to have to make choices. We've seen that in the pork industry in Canada. Considerable sums have been invested, starting with Quebec, to maintain an industry that was nothing more or less than dead. It was being kept on artificial life support when tough decisions should have been made. I don't mean you should completely abolish the pork value chain, but we absolutely have to meet a demand. At the time, however, there was simply no more demand for pork at the price they wanted to charge.
As for the strategic framework entitled Growing Forward 2, I believe it is high time decisions were made. We have a lot of natural resources in Canada. It's a big country. So we have to deal with major logistical problems. As we have 34 million inhabitants, but this is one of the largest countries in the world, it is expensive to transport goods. We therefore have to establish economies of scale in production and transportation, but especially manage to develop value-added products across Canada.