Absolutely. There's no reason to believe that it can't. All of those pork boards that I mentioned are still operating, and operating viably.
I realize what the gentlemen from Quebec are talking about--some of the Quebec experiences. I've looked at these things on an even broader basis. I've looked at some World Bank studies on these kinds of actions. This is an older study, but it's still very enlightening. Between 1985 and 1997, more than 80 countries sold off 8,500 state-owned enterprises. This is exactly the kind of thing we're talking about, and they did it successfully.
Yes, there is the odd time when it doesn't work properly, but it is incredibly rare and it's not an overall indictment of the commercialization process itself. The failures usually are very predictable. If you don't go all the way, you're not going to get the right results. Usually it's because of poor practices, such as non-competitive bidding—the backroom variety—sloppy contract writing, inadequate monitoring of performance, and those kinds of things.
The odds of successfully transitioning the Canadian Wheat Board into more of an open market setting are extremely high. Most of the success stories we see around the world come from high- and middle-income countries exactly like Canada. It's because positive results happen in countries where you have a more market-friendly policy environment, and that's exactly what we're in here.