Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If I may, I'd like to say that I disagree with what my colleague Malcolm Allen said about making older farmers retire. I disagree because there is a bit of a contradiction here.
The land is part of who we are. When I travel from Ottawa to Joliette and see producers working in their fields, I'd like to be in their shoes. So I don't agree with Mr. Allen.
That said, Mr. Lacoste, you mentioned earlier that people don't know where food comes from, and that's true. I spent some of my youth in Montreal. Our neighbours didn't know where food came from. They visited a farm and were surprised to see eggs there. They saw chickens laying eggs. Food obviously has to come from somewhere. People should be informed about what they eat and about the source of their food. Steak doesn't magically appear at the grocery store.
Here's what I would like to know. How do you see the rural community in 10 or 20 years? Let's hope that it won't be too crowded by cities. Each of you can answer this question. You have only five minutes, which isn't very much time.
How do you see that community over the next 10 or 20 years?