I appreciate that.
I'm going to shift tacks here a little.
Mr. Caron, I'm really interested in what you're talking about—soil health at depth. I started growing corn about four years ago on my irrigated farm in southern Alberta. I see some effects and work to mitigate it.
I wonder if you could comment on how important it is that we maintain tracts of land in the country's research inventory—like the research centres that have recently been threatened—for a long period of time. You said that it takes 10 years to cause damage and 10 years to mitigate that damage, so we have to study specific parcels of land for 20 years to understand. Could you comment on the circumstance we find ourselves in right now and what the alternatives might be, if any?
