Agriculture committee  Well, we were just talking about this in our office with the Canola Council of Canada, and they were saying, “What does it take to move on some of these things?” I said, “You know, it takes incredibly strong leadership from your ministers.” You need a strong minister on top of that department, and he has to have a mandate from the Prime Minister.

Agriculture committee  I have maybe just one more thought on what we are seeing from the government. I think we've seen a lot of focus, as was mentioned, on the biofuels. We see a lot of consultation going on in business risk management. I think our sense, as the grains and oilseeds sector, is that there's a lot of work being done to say what we need for the base supports.

Agriculture committee  May I just say one quick word, Ken? Following up on the branding, I was actually surprised that Ontario doesn't seem to be quite as well developed as Manitoba, where we have a very successful Peak of the Market program. If you go into the grocery stores and you look at a bag of potatoes or a bag of carrots, you know they are produced in Manitoba and weren't repackaged in Manitoba.

Agriculture committee  You said that farmers say they're good at what they do, and that's very, very true. I think we have some very distinct advantages here within Canadian agriculture that a lot of other countries don't have. Our farmers are very well educated. We also have a huge infrastructure in Canada that not everywhere else in the world has, which can accommodate types of innovation.

Agriculture committee  Following on that thought, when you have another source looking for the products from the farmer, you see a sustained higher price for our products on the farm. Maybe there are some public dollars going in on the one side of it, but then you'd be saving dollars on the business risk management side on the other side.