Thank you, Chair.
Before I get into my questions, I want to generally take this opportunity, in spite of the possibility of an election showing up, to wish all my colleagues the best in their personal lives—“electoral lives” is a little different case, but their personal lives. You've become friends around this table. You've handled yourselves relatively well with the proceedings of this session, especially this last study.
I just want to wish you all very well. It's always an honour to serve as a member of Parliament in this great country called Canada. I think everybody around this table can take pride in knowing that they've done what they thought was best for farmers. Again, personal success; electoral success, we'll leave to the voters.
I'll get into my questions. I'm going to go a little bit into history here. If we look at 2005—and Stephen, you could probably talk about 2005—you know the situation on the prairies: we were losing farmers; the beef sector was going down. Canola might have been the only bright light, and even that was sitting at six or seven dollars a bushel at that time.
How does that situation compare with today's?