Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for your great interventions today.
Mr. McAlpine, it's good to see you, as always. We've gotten to know each other since the listeriosis committee that we both attended quite often. I have to thank you for the work you've done and for being as readily available as you have been over the last several years.
Brian, it's always good to see you. I would like to thank XL Foods Inc. for making sure that the Brooks plant stayed open. It was very important for our province and for the western Canadian beef industry as well.
I always like to talk about...when we talk about free-range chickens, or as my colleague, Ben Lobb, was talking about, “free-run turkeys”.... My wife is a city girl, and she watched some news report that was talking about caged chicken. She decided last year that we were going to go and get some of our own chickens out at dad's farm. She was going to raise them and do all of it. We didn't get past opening the door before she decided she would rather go down and buy some Maple Leaf chicken.
So education is always a positive thing for everybody. I hope this is in camera, so she doesn't hear it.