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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 farmer program that I took advantage of when I was 14 years old, and I started farming.

April 17th, 2007Committee meeting

Robert Saik

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 the renewal offices.

April 17th, 2007Committee meeting

Robert Saik

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 delivering services to farmers, our experience has been that we have been very frustrated with our ability to tap into and to facilitate programming to farmers.

April 17th, 2007Committee meeting

Robert Saik

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 of Agri-Trend Agrology.

April 17th, 2007Committee meeting

Robert Saik