That's always the struggle. It's a guessing game how that's going to impact in the long term. We have many free trade agreements around the world. We are an export nation, and we rely.... This is not only in primary agriculture but also in the whole agri-food industry. As an example, in Ontario there are 860,000 people working in the agri-food industry. A good majority of them are in the processing sector, so it affects not just farmers; it affects the economy of the country a lot.
Not being able to fulfill a market potentially means a loss in that market despite the free trade agreement, because somebody else will come in and fill that market. What we're experiencing with the various climate issues is that it takes a long time to recover. The drought in the prairie provinces isn't just going to be over if we happen to get a little bit of rain or some snow through the wintertime. There are long-standing effects that occur because of that. The floods that have happened in Atlantic Canada, the atmospheric river that happened in B.C..... You just don't fix those quickly. That will have negative economic impacts not only on the farm community but throughout the entire economy.
One thing about agriculture is that we're recession-proof. We've proven that we're pandemic-proof. How many industries can say that? We continue to do what we need to do to produce food for people both domestically and internationally. That's a tremendous economic driver. We need to figure out how to not only maintain that but also capitalize on that for the economy of the country.
I don't know if you want to add anything else, Brodie.
