Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Lawson, you're absolutely correct. This is an important issue.
I saw it first-hand in my riding, Windsor, which lost its raceway because of a political decision by the McGuinty government to close it. It had a casino as part of it. It had $2 million in profit. We had hundreds of jobs there that were directly providing services, and then there was the whole industry around it that was flourishing—the farms, the breeding, the notoriety, the connection to other communities and a cultural thing as well.
I think we're worse off. In fact, the Joy family ran that raceway for years and years, and now it's an empty parking lot. It's maybe slated for big box retail, but there's a development fight going on as well. We had an iconic industry, which was there not only for the horse racing but for all kinds of other things. That is now gone.
If we don't address your situation, what do you think is going to be the future? Again, the agriculture department said that they can't sustain the current situation. Do you think, though, with the proper support to get the provinces on side, we could get a solution here?
A lot of this is provincial. It's going to be regulatory. How do we ensure that you're going to get that?