I would like to point out that the demands on resilient or sustainable agriculture in Canada and abroad calls for an understanding of the many different HR SWOTs we face. Yes, the need for new, young, entrepreneurial, "sustainable production savvy" is a cause for concern. Organizations like the CFBMC and the CAHRC are engaged in such. Missing from the discussion at the federal level at least, and I assume at the provincial level as well, of how to sustainably and profitably maximize the societal and commercial benefits (i.e. multi-functionality) derived from the physical agri-resource base is a dialogue on "how to ensure that in Canada we have a growing "cadre" or "talent pool" of highly skilled scientistsm teachers and other professionals (from agrologists, to policy analysts, financial wizards with an understanding of the bio-fuels, bio-pharmaceutical and other agri-based industries) engaged in contemporary agriculture. Moreover, an additional challenge is the building of the "integrative capital" that facilitates transfer of knowledge to and from the science and farming communities and from both to the commercial world of contemporary agriculture (i.e. the world of multi-functional outputs from the agri-resource base.