I'd be quite happy to do so. I absolutely can't believe that at this time and place you would question the patriotism and the honour of an organization that has spent its entire time dedicated to family farmers.
What happened was, there was a meeting of beef industry leaders, farm groups from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. One of the people who happened to be there was from R-CALF. That was it. We found out R-CALF was speaking on captive supply--something you say you now agree with R-CALF on--saying there needs to be something done around captive supply. Maybe you are not surprised that you might be able to agree on something with R-CALF, but the NFU found it quite surprising that we could find something to agree with R-CALF on, and that was captive supply. That's what those comments are.
It's absolutely beyond me that you would play these silly political games around this kind of stuff when we have a real thing. We have seventy-year-old people who are continuing to farm, not because they want to but because they can't get out of the industry. There's no way they can get out. If they try to get out they're going to lose everything. The only thing they can hope to do is hang on and lose a little bit at a time. Yet you want to play these silly little political games.
We have young people who can't take over farming--