We are working better together as agricultural universities across the country than we ever have been in the past, and that is just growing. So that is very useful, we think.
Again, the kinds of programs that you put out there to entice us to work together are the ones that are very useful. In the agricultural community we appreciate the programs that work with Agriculture Canada, the universities, and industry, because that grounds us in a great reality and helps the kind of dialogue we need.
It might be very useful if the same sort of approach were used in a public dialogue. One of the reasons we don't get enough students coming into the universities to service the industry and everybody else is that agriculture is not thought of as a highly technical and very exciting kind of career for the future. We don't have an image problem; we have a problem with the public trusting us. They trust farmers, but they don't trust agriculture, and they don't understand agriculture to be the breadth that we understand it to be. So if you can partner with industry, universities, and government--provincial and federal--to undertake that kind of a public dialogue that would actually get the truth out and find out what people need to know in order for them to trust us, it would be very helpful, I would think.