Thanks.
I think it was Mr. Speer who drew reference to the picture of the 31 combines coming across the field.
In my riding in central Ontario, the southern half is agricultural and the northern half is the bush. It's cottage country for Toronto. When I was a kid growing up, on the lake I lived on there were probably 20 family-owned resorts. At that time, everybody sold the week-long package. You came from Saturday to Saturday and there was a program for kids. That doesn't exist anymore. A lot of those resorts went broke because they kept offering that after people in Toronto had figured out they could fly to Cuba for a week, quite frankly, cheaper than they could come to Haliburton for a week, especially if they included their food and booze in the cost.
Some of those resorts adapted, and that's the other question I have in terms of commodity production.
If you're producing a commodity, you're competing against Brazil and the Ukraine and the United States and lots of places versus something that's more value-added, something that's more targeted at the local market. Are there enough resources around to point out opportunities or to help farmers transition to maybe producing something that's not just a mainstream commodity, but something that's more value-added, that maybe is targeted to a more local or regional market? Are those kinds of initiatives out there? I think in the long run that's a form of business risk management, to actually get into a business that's less risky.