I don't know the magic number when it stops working. All I do know is that when our young people stop coming back to the farm because they don't want to be involved....
My children say they don't want to be involved in a hog farm because there's really no future there. Thirty per cent of our egg farmers in Canada are under the age of 45. That tells you that they want to be involved, but at some point that will change. If we're looking at trade negotiations and things that have happened, if it's so good for us, why are they giving us compensation packages to mitigate the trade deal they gave us? I'm sorry. It doesn't matter what the party of the day is; they're looking to give us a compensation package. If it doesn't have a negative effect on our industry, why are we getting a compensation package?
Sure, you can talk about stats that show growth, but we have population growth, so the growth is also related to that. This country needs more immigrants, more people coming in. We want to fill those markets with Canadian eggs and we can do that. However, please look at what's happening when we have counterparts in beef—James and his family farm, and my family farm—and you're pitting us against each other. Find a way that he can ship beef to other parts around the world without giving part of our domestic supply away to the Americans and other countries around the world.