Past experience would indicate to me that, if somebody above me has an extra cost that they need to absorb into their business, it usually goes to the lowest end of the scale, and producers are in that particular position. The incurred cost in whatever the system is--whether the grain handlers handle that or whatever--in turn gets handed back down to somebody in the chain, and the guy who can't push it back up the chain any longer is the producer. We have the concern that added costs will be borne by producers, so we're saying the value that the Canadian Grain Commission brings to the entire economy would indicate that some of that cost could be borne, or should be borne, by the taxpayer, simply because it is a benefit to the economy to have our industry where it is.
On October 3rd, 2006. See this statement in context.