Thank you all for being here.
Mr. Lovell, I deeply respect the work you do. You'd probably rather be out managing your business than being in front of the Standing Committee on Finance and having to talk to all of us here.
We've heard the government repeatedly say that these changes are not retroactive, and then we've had experts from the Canadian Tax Foundation say the opposite. Their own proposal is retroactive. It's retroactive on estates and on those who are trying to transfer the family farm, especially from one generation to the next.
When you're operating your business, when you're planning for the future, obviously you talk to other farmers in your area, people in the same line of business, families who have been in this business for generations. What are they saying? People in New Brunswick who are in this type of business, planning for the future with their children, with their families, what do they think of these changes?