Mr. Chair, thank you so much.
Gentlemen, thank you for attending. Mr. Meredith, welcome back, and Mr. Goldstein, it's good to see you.
I was struck by your comments, Mr. Goldstein, about connecting the urban sector to farming. In fact, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in my riding there is a professor, Dr. Kent Mullinix, who has just put out a book called Agricultural Urbanism, where he is dealing with that, where you're connecting supply and demand.
Following up on that statement, I want to ask a question on how we can utilize the agricultural framework policy to create a different business model supporting farmers who don't have huge farms. In the greater Vancouver area we're looking at farms of 5, 10, 20 acres where, given the situation in B.C. with no frost and the wealth of the soil, it can be very profitable.
There are two parts to the question. Number one, in the existing framework are there policies that can be helpful in that area? If yes, great, how can we implement them? If no, or yes, how can we take that to our next framework, which I believe starts in 2018?