I'm going to start, and if Mr. Schlegel has something to add, he may do so.
This is one of the cases in which the government could offer financial support through the amber programs. The public sets requirements, but that's not compensated for by the price of our product. When consumers buy it, we don't recover what it cost us to meet those requirements. Back home in Quebec, environmental costs have increased astronomically, to the point where the price of pork is now 25¢ a pound — not a kilo — less than what we got a few years ago.
Production costs are rising because of events over which we have no control. The public is making demands, for shelterbelts, for example, to block odours. But they have to be installed in appropriate areas and maintained. That's fine, but there's still a cost related to all that. Similarly, we hire agronomists and engineers, and we pay all those people real salaries, whereas, today, we don't have any salaries. It's as simple as that. For more than two years now, we haven't had any salaries; we're living on thin air. A number of producers even have to work outside the business in order to support their families.