Thank you very much. I'm really sorry your family had to go through that. I'm glad you could come together and have support within your family.
I have a question for Ms. Rastogi. In your opening comments, or with Mr. MacDonald, you painted a picture of large animal farming with hundreds of thousands of animals on a farm. I think you're trying to get at some “Farm, Inc.” thing.
I have some numbers from Saskatchewan of the total number of beef cows and the number of animals they have on a farm. For farms with one to seven beef cows, there are 1,298. For farms with eight to 17 cows, there are 1,781. For farms with 18 to 47 cows, there are 3,305. For farms with 48 to 77 cows, there are 1,864. For farms with 78 to 122 cows, there are 1,686.
My question is.... The vast majority of farms across this country are family farms. They're not big industrial farms. Why would you misrepresent that in committee today to try to make a point?