Thank you, Mr. Chair,
I actually think there was a SPARK study done as well, showing a $10 discount on barley. That might be something you'd like to take a look at as well.
In terms of Mr. Easter's remarks, probably one of the reasons we did as well as we did in western Canada is that people out there expect us to keep our promises. I know that's foreign to some people, but we ran on a platform, and we have a number of other priorities that we've kept to during this session. As people are coming to see, we are keeping our campaign promises and priorities, and this was another one of our campaign commitments. So I think you can expect that we would continue to move on it.
In terms of the changes we want, we want to bring farmers choice, and in that choice, the Wheat Board would be one of the options they would have. They certainly have the option of going to the Wheat Board. Hopefully, we can give them some options of doing something with their own grain, which is the point of Mr. Ritz's bill. And we give them the option of dealing with one of the grain companies, if they want to do that, which they'd be free to do.
So that's the intention of what our policy is. Hopefully, we can carry through on that.