Thank you, Madam Chair.
I apologize to Mr. Hardie in advance if I am asking a question that has been asked for the last hundred years. I haven't been here quite that long.
Joking aside, we have often been told that the interswitching measures, and all the other measures in Bill C-30, were designed to respond to the problems caused by an exceptional harvest, followed by a very harsh winter.
Am I wrong to say that agricultural techniques are advancing so rapidly that what was once an exceptional harvest has become the norm?