Thank you, Chair, and thank you all for being here. It's wonderful that we're able to be part of this.
We obviously could have asked you all to come to Ottawa, but one thing I find very important when we travel is that we get a glimpse of the place we're in when we're asking these questions. The bus ride from Montreal to Quebec was a real eye-opener. I'd never done that before, and I was talking to somebody about that.
What struck me was the incredible number of SMEs groups that popped up along the corridor. I drive from Chatham to Ottawa, and we have nothing on you. This is simply amazing. I see a culture of entrepreneurship that I've always known existed in Quebec, but to really see it is astounding.
Because I'm a bit of an agriculturalist as well, I was watching the farms, and I see you're even reclaiming some of the land at this point. This tells me there's a market for your...I'm suggesting that you're into corn, soybean, and wheat here as well. You have the heat units to do all that, and your farms are getting bigger, and they're looking for markets. I saw some pork operations, some poultry operations, and a huge dairy operation along the way as well.
I'm not looking for.... In a court of law, they'd say I'm leading the witness, and I guess in a sense I am. Having seen all that, I think it must be important for your farmers to access markets. Am I correct in that assumption?