The committee at some future date could in fact do as Mr. Gourde suggests, but at the moment, the bottom line is that for those producers in Quebec, having come through eight or nine years ago, out of the potato region, a problem of a similar type--we were shut out of the market--the problem really is a financial one. That's what it comes down to, at the end of the day. The problem is a financial one.
They don't know what to tell their bankers. They don't know what to tell their creditors. They don't know what is to be made with their crop. They have no idea where the Government of Canada may be going on the issue.
Certainly we should bring them in with some haste. We should hear from them and then make further decisions from there.