Again, I'll speak only in general terms.
If the past is any indication of future trends, we need more innovation and more economies of scale. Let the best and more creative farmers take over, grow the scale of their operations, and become more efficient over time. We've reached a point now—it's funny that we're discussing these agroforestry issues—where a number of experts these days talk about “peak farmland”, meaning that despite the fact that the world population keeps increasing, we've probably reached the maximum amount of farmland that we will ever need if past trends and increased yields keep on improving.
Many parts of the world obviously have other disadvantages as compared with Canada in terms of infrastructure and a less corrupt political system. Competition will come from many places, and it will come hard. Historically, we've mostly had only to worry about competition within Canadian provinces, or perhaps from the U.S. I'm sure you're all knowledgeable about what has been happening in Argentina and Brazil and New Zealand and other places. These people, as far as I know, will not be burdened with those other taxes and will be able to drive our producers out of the market if we keep asking the impossible of them, which is to become ever more efficient while burdening them with regulations and taxes that their competitors don't have to face.
Again, look at past trends. Look at how much progress has been made in the past. Let's lay the foundation to make sure they can do more of that in the future. Let the most creative and the most entrepreneurial agricultural producers grow. It's nice to want to save the family farm and to want to keep supply management, but that's just not the way to go, in my opinion.