Thank you, Mr. Chair.
That's an interesting discussion on the Wheat Board. I'll not get into it other than to say what the Wheat Board is now. It's just another grain company—it's as simple as that—that at some point in time, as most of the other corporate sectors do, will try to take advantage of grain farmers and not work in their interests as the old Canadian Wheat Board used to do. I'll leave it at that.
On the Canadian Wheat Board, though, Mr. Meredith, you mentioned—and the minister did as well—some of the numbers on the Wheat Board assets—or “not assets”. It is an issue. It's a debate. Does the department have any documentation on the numbers that they can provide the committee?
There's the $3 million that was talked about, but is there anywhere we can turn to? We no longer have an annual report that's accessible to us. You'll know that. We can't find out what the Canadian Wheat Board does anymore. We can't find out how much they pay in demurrage payments, which were huge last year. That was something members of government always asked for from the previous Canadian Wheat Board, but none of that information is available to us now. It's commercially sensitive.
Can the department provide us with the numbers on moneys that have gone towards the Wheat Board and what they determined the assets to be at so-called market freedom day versus what they are now?