Mr. Speaker, the basis of the problem is receiving fair value for the product produced, whatever that product may be.
The agriculture community is one of the only areas where farmers have no influence over their input costs. They have no influence over the taxes they pay and somebody else tells them how much they are going to get when they sell their product.
Speaking personally, I have a small farm. I hauled in my crop this year and sold it through the board. It was durum wheat. I had 100 tonnes of crop off a quarter section of dry land and I received $7,300 net in my pocket. It does not matter how many quarter sections there are, that is not going to cut it. That does not pay the bills and it does not put food on the table. It does not keep the economy going.
We could apply that to any industry, whether it be fisheries, farming, forestry or our retail sector. Anybody who is in business, and farming is a business, has to receive a fair price for the product they are producing. That is what we are after.