Tuesday 4th August 2009 was a very proud day in my life so far as i was presented with an award of recognition from The Honourable Leona Dombrowsky (Minister of Agriculture in Canada) for my success in being awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 2009. I was invited to the ministers office where i was presented with my award scroll and certificate. We then sat down and discussed agriculture and the many differences between british and canadian agriculture and how agriculture was a huge part of the canadian economy. After a series of discussions with the minister, i was taken to a number of very productive and profitable farming enterprises. I was given a guided tour of the farms and told about what plans these farms had for the future and how they planned to cope with the canadian economy. That evening i was invited to have dinnar with the canadian minister and another guest at one of the top restaurants in Guelph. After dinnar i was driven and dropped of at an all expenses paid accommodation residence for visiters of the minister. This had been arranged for me to stay in over night.