Thank you very much.
I apologize, but we have a very tight schedule and it's always the chairman who gets blamed if we're late.
I have just one closing comment that I'd like all of you to think about.
And to you, Mr. Lehoux, like Mr. Shipley, I was mayor in my municipality. I'm a beef farmer, but I also milked cows in the 1980s. I've been on the supply management side and the non-supply management side and I understand the perils on both sides.
Anyway, there's just one thing we should all remember. In regard to the numbers in beef and pork--and that's what I'm in right now, and my youngest brother is still farming--part of the problem there, of course, is the dollar and what have you that we can't do anything about. But basically the numbers were too high.
On top of that, there are the exports, which is a good thing, and I'm all in favour of exports, but exports are overproduction in your country. I'm all for that, but we need to remember that, and the question we should all ask ourselves is, should we subsidize overproduction? That's something that government always has to do.
I think it goes back, Mr. Turgeon, to a comment you made that some people received money through the advance payments program, and all that did—and I've heard this before—was basically keep them in when maybe they would have got out, which basically hurts overall.
So there are just some things in there. While we need to protect our farmers, as Mr. Lemieux and many others said, we have to balance that with the fact that the Canadian taxpayer shouldn't be expected to subsidize food production that's feeding somebody in Hong Kong, or Tokyo, or California.
On that note, we do have to meet a bus in 10 minutes and we don't have much time.
I'd like to thank all of you for being here today. We really appreciate you taking time out of your busy day.
Ms. Létourneau, as a young farmer, good luck to you.
Good luck to all of you in your businesses, and thanks again for being here.
The meeting is adjourned.