Agriculture committee  First of all, I'll address your question around AgriStability. For a grain and oilseed producer who isn't very diversified and is mainly in just grain and oilseeds, when you add the rule of two times your allowable expenses, that actually really deflates our target even lower.

Agriculture committee  It comes back to how you build that consumer trust and who is viewed as a trusted source of information. Personally, I would have to say that as the chair of an organization such as Grain Farmers of Ontario, my credibility is less than my wife's would be in terms of her engagement with her social group, because she farms.

Agriculture committee  We've been having significant conversations with our counterparts across Canada in the grains and oilseeds sector about business risk management programming from a national perspective. Really, what we are looking for is some flexibility. I highlighted our opinion of what we look at, but we're talking about having three options and picking one of the three, not being part of all three.

Agriculture committee  Sure. I think really you're speaking to that conversation around public trust and having to ensure that our consumers and society as a whole are comfortable with the farming practices that we're following specifically within the grain and oilseeds sector in Ontario. We really focus on sustainability and on ensuring that our practices are environmentally sustainable and that we can achieve some of these goals and targets effectively, efficiently, and with less environmental impact than we've had historically.

Agriculture committee  I am Mark Brock. I farm around Hensall, Ontario, and I am chairman of the Grain Farmers of Ontario. On behalf of our 28,000 grain and oilseed members, I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and the committee, for the opportunity to provide our perspective on Canada's suite of business risk management programming.