First of all, I agree with everything that's been said by my colleagues, Dr. Cranfield and Tyler McCann, since the beginning of this session.
I'll go back to one of the comments made by Dr. Cranfield about capacity and allowing farmers to scale up. Access to capital is the biggest challenge, so I certainly would agree with that statement for sure, especially right now, when we have a government that is very engaged in capitalizing the system. However, the private sector is still often on the sidelines, so we need more activity.
We did a report with MNP recently, looking at Canada's performance with other G20 nations, and we're laggers when it comes to how private capital is engaging in agri-food. That needs to change in order to help companies, whether it's at the farm gate or in processing, become more competitive in dealing with some of the risks we see out there.
