During the course of my many months of talking to reeves, mayors, canola producers, ranchers and virtually every interest that in combination make up the backbone of the prairie economy, I heard people say that they want a seat at the table. This is a quote from so many: they want a seat at the table.
Well, they're going to get a seat at the table. Rather than anticipating what it is they might say—though I have a pretty good idea through these many months of talking with them—it's better that the implicated federal ministers hear directly.
I know that these will be direct, sometimes very painfully honest conversations that will lead only to better places because the level of understanding...and it plays right to the political questions that have been asked. When you are able to take that kind of attitude towards a series of discussions with people who make the prairie economy tick literally from the ground up, only good can come of it.