The U.S. model was based on recovery of the earning power of your quota. That was what the basis was, along with the economic power of the quota itself.
In Australia, the producers actually were a cooperative. The remaining growers were a cooperative actually processing the tobacco for the manufacturers, and they have been recompensed based on their shares in the cooperative. They were small producers who pooled their resources to make an economic farm viable.
Here in Canada we're very much the same. In Ontario especially, we have just under 272 million pounds of quota and 1,080-some-odd quota producers. Back in 2002, we were using 400,000 pounds of our quota to make an economical farm unit. This year, we're at over 544,000 pounds of quota, so you can see that families are pooling their quotas to try to keep the farm operating.
We're not going to make millionaires out of every farmer, not by any means. These are families—mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. There are generations involved in the farm unit now, with smaller amounts of quota. We're trying to identify a way for these farming generations to get out of tobacco growing.
In Australia, for those who exited farming totally in some of the previous buyouts, they've actually been giving a tax exemption. If you exit farming, there's not even any tax on it, and I believe they are asking for that to include tobacco farming. In Australia, though, tobacco was not the only crop on a farm; it was a component.