Thank you, Mr. Barlow, for the question, and the answer is “absolutely”.
As I mentioned in my opening remarks, I think this bill really complements current provincial legislation. It strengthens both provincial and federal legislation on protecting farms, farmers, farm families and farm employees. As I mentioned, this new era of activism has really ramped up. It's well planned. It's well orchestrated, and activists know what they're doing. To your point, what's happening is that our enforcement is not happening on the farm or at facilities. It just simply isn't. Part of it is because police do not have enough tools in the tool box. They also don't believe that the court system will look at this properly and actually convict people. If they're not going to convict people, then they don't want to lay charges and have to put the whole system through the process of going through the courts only to have it dropped, much like the recent case I referred to on the mink farm in the Ottawa area.
I think that if there are a lot of teeth in the legislation, that will, first of all, prove to be a deterrent, and also, if there activism and break-ins are happening, the police also will be confident in laying charges that something will happen as it goes through the court system. Hence, it will also require some education of the entire penal system to make sure that people understand what it is we're dealing with back out on the farm.