I'd like to thank the witnesses today for their presentations.
As was mentioned earlier, over the next 10 years we expect 75% of Canada's farms to change hands. In my constituency I have a lot of dairy farms and a lot of chicken, and a lot of those farmers are thinking about retirement and what their future holds. A lot of them had hoped to see a legislative change to facilitate the transfer of family farms to their children.
I wonder if I can get some comments around the importance of making it easier to transfer a farm and to keep it in the family. At earlier committee meetings we even had some people who suggested enlarging the definition of family. I wonder if we can get some comments around the importance of making it easier and rectifying this injustice at the federal level.