Thank you. I want to make a couple of points. First of all, there's not nearly enough information that CWB II would be able to survive. Let's ask all the grains and oilseeds producers who lost equity in SaskPool over the last two years, or in the Alberta Wheat Pool. None of them are going to believe for a minute that we could start a new grain company to compete against these other large companies. This is an information issue.
The other information issue is that farmers need to know this isn't a case where we'll try it for a couple of years and if it doesn't work we'll go back to a single-desk monopoly. It's going to be irreversible. You just need to look at chapter 11, the investment chapter in NAFTA, at the performance requirements. We need an analysis on what the loss of market power would do. Would it harm farmers or wouldn't it? I'd like to see information like that as well.
We also need to see better information on value-added. Most people don't know Canada is a larger net exporter of flour than the United States. Do farmers know that when they hear the argument that we're impeding value-added, or that companies are saying they'd like to set up a malting plant in western Canada, but they can't because of the Canadian Wheat Board? In fact, we can import malt barley from the U.S. with no tier 2, with no tariffs. That's not an impediment either. We need much better information out there, so we can have a really good objective discussion from both sides of the issue.