That's well said. Yes, policy often goes further than dollars do. When we look at our country, the issues we have in Canada seem sometimes silly relative to the issues we're hearing about today with the Middle East.
Canada needs to do a number of things. One is that we need to modernize our infrastructure so that we can move our product from where it's produced to get to export position and to market. The strikes at the port of Vancouver and the St. Lawrence Seaway cannot happen if we have an economic and moral imperative to move an excess of agriculture and agrifood products to countries that have a deficit. Those things need to happen.
We need Canada to be viewed as a country where companies want to invest and commercialize their products of innovation. Agriculture is about innovation, just like telecom, IT, etc. We need to reduce some of our regulatory red tape so that companies see a path to commercialization in Canada and they understand the ROI, the R and D and the regulatory burden.
We need to make sure that our farmers have the tools they need to produce agriculture products. We plant about 150 million acres of field crops every year in Canada. We have an economic and moral imperative to get that to the world.
Look, we need to work across departments. We can't have silos. We can't have one department looking at a reduction in nitrogen and another department talking about a rail review. We're not on the same page as a country, holistically.
We have the ability. The province of Saskatchewan alone produces enough food at every harvest to feed Canada for a year. I think that speaks volumes about the ability. Agriculture is one of those sectors where we have not even come close to tapping the potential we have from an economic and a moral imperative, I think, to move our products from countries of excess to countries of deficiency.