Thank you.
Once again, to go back to the Canadian Wheat Board question and competitiveness, in his letter to our chair, the chair of the Wheat Board, Mr. Hill, stated that there were record returns this year totalling over $7 billion, that during the 2007-08 crop year it “used its disciplined approach to sales and pricing to make sales when other sellers, notably in the U.S., were out of grain”, and that this “enabled the CWB to return values to grain producers that were considerably higher than the weighted average prices American producers achieved”.
We often hear that if we had access to the open market and a dual marketing system, farmers could get more, yet we're seeing in fact that under this current system, according to Mr. Hill, the returns to farmers were better than those of their counterparts. Could you comment on that, please?