Agriculture committee  Peter covered a bit of it, but the comment I wanted to make is, yes, the ad hoc program in the beef industry was very helpful in that time of disaster. If the new disaster component program covers that sort of thing, that's great. When you have to have, as Peter mentioned a couple of questions ago, several ad hoc programs in a row to cover an income crisis, then it's time for a permanent program.

Agriculture committee  There was a six-month period when that was in place, when the Canadian Border Services Agency came up with the final determination of what they would put a price on. That was the $1.47 duty--that's American. That would have been applied for the next year if the Canadian International Trade Tribunal had found we were injured, so they had a duty in place ready to go if the trade tribunal found we had been injured by these dumped crops.

Agriculture committee  No. The $1.91 was the amount of duty being applied to the U.S. corn as it came across the border. At that time, Ontario corn was selling for $2.71. You need to add the two figures together to come up with an end-user cost of corn.

Agriculture committee  There's a very set timeframe for any and all anti-dumping countervail suits in Canada. When you initially put your brief forward, it has to be a fully completed brief that goes forward to the Canadian Border Services Agency. We did that in August 2005. They then had 90 days to come up with a preliminary judgment, so that took us to December.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I appreciate the invitation I received from this committee. I understand you may not have the outline with you. I did not have time to get it translated, and I apologize for that. I'd like to touch on the income crisis, the Canadian Corn Producers' Coalition, the multi-pronged approach we took, and the solution that we see in the future.