Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the two of you and your company for doing this study. I think it's great that we can all put together this group of recommendations, and it's a great dialogue and debate in the country over the future of the Grain Commission.
One of the things I was concerned about and that you addressed in your report is the whole system. We've already been talking about it, and Wayne was talking about making sure farmers, rather than just grain companies, have a fair bias. Part of that, in my opinion, is the whole grading system--the KVD, the way the research is done, crops possibly even inhibited in this country because of CGC regulations.
When you start looking at things, what's making a little more money on the farm these days versus just growing grains and exporting them is the value added--it's the ethanol, the biofuels, the farm feeding that's happening out there. I really want to know if you think there's a way forward here so that we can have the flexibility in the system. You've mentioned we've got competing groups fighting and that this animosity is increasing. Can we fix that through the regulations of the CGC and its mandate so that it can actually address this whole problem of bringing in place more varieties, quicker approval of varieties--meeting the needs of all segments of the industry so that all farmers can be in a win-win situation?