I would argue that agriculture should be viewed as a strategic investment. We heard Dominic Barton make a speech last week or the week before saying that agriculture is one of the few areas in which there is a possibility of economic growth.
As a businessman, if I see some area that has potential for growth and I see other areas that have less potential, I'm going to funnel some money over to that area that has potential. Let's not look at this as just a whittle-down exercise; let's take a look at it. If we make these strategic investments in agriculture and do some measurement, maybe we're going to actually grow the tax base for the federal and the provincial governments as we go ahead. I think that's the way we have to approach it.