Back to the situation, it frustrates me as a producer that for some reason people view the Canadian Wheat Board as somehow being locked in some sort of time warp in which they haven't changed over the last how many decades. It's ridiculous to assume that. I can tell you, the Wheat Board has changed dramatically over the past decade--dramatically, folks--with the farmer-elected directors. They are running that organization. I believe very strongly in two things: a market economy and democracy. And I also know that in a market economy, there's value in a monopoly. As a producer who controls that monopoly, I'm not sure I want to give it up just because there are a few who think they can do better outside of that. And I am certainly not willing to give it up without the democratic right to have a vote on that issue. I think if we're going to do that, fair's fair, and if there's a vote amongst wheat growers and barley growers and durum growers and the farmers determine that this wheat board should go, then it goes. But until then, I say it has to stay.
On November 2nd, 2006. See this statement in context.