Agriculture committee  Part of what needs to happen, I believe, is that we need to convince farmers that succession planning is a process and not an event. Too many people treat it as if one day they're going to wake up and they're going to make this dramatic change. Years ago, there was a young farme

Agriculture committee  Thank you. It's good to see you again, Honourable Easter. You have two questions. I'll address the first one and let my colleagues address the second one. How can we make it workable and simple? I have a concrete example in my hand—a specialized business plan we provided to t

Agriculture committee  I apologize to the translators and to our francophone members. I speak two languages, English and Ukrainian, but that wouldn't do us much good in Quebec. Most of that was preamble anyway. We'll get into the meat of the matter right now. As an independent consulting firm delive

Agriculture committee  Thanks for accommodating me. I've got an 11 o'clock meeting in Calgary, so I appreciate the committee making time for me. Also, I appreciate the opportunity to address the committee on the agricultural policy framework. As a quick overview, I'm the founder and CEO and president