I just want to start off by thanking Mr. Barlow for bringing forward that motion. I'm a little confused as to why my Liberal colleagues have voted that way. I know some of them were at the Dairy Farmers of Canada breakfast yesterday, and there was a very good presentation by the doctor. One of the notable things I took away from that presentation was the fact that the McGovern committee in the 1970s, which influenced, for three decades or more, all kinds of development of food policies, was based on incomplete science, and I thought all of us who attended had learned a lesson there.
I think that as a committee, we do ourselves a disservice and we do Canadians a disservice if we don't try to hear from a multitude of voices. You may have already made a decision as to which way you want to go on the food guide, but I think having those voices on the record is an important part of what we do here.
I just wanted to get that onto the record.
Now, I'd like to turn to our guests.
Mr. Kristensen, in your presentation you talked about the efforts to identify practical methods that will lead to improved feed, water, and energy efficiencies, and those are being worked on. Ultimately this study is happening in the context of what we can eventually recommend to the government, so can you provide a little bit more detail as to some ways that the government can help with respect to those specific areas?