Also, if you take a look at a community like Tillsonburg, which you would think would be a relatively thriving community, as it has a little more diverse economic base, the local retailers up and down the street, whom I know personally, are complaining about the fact that there is no traffic, that no business is coming into their stores any more.
The people who used to support our businesses were our tobacco farmers. The farmers came to town and spent their hard-earned dollars within the community of that town. I know of specific individuals who used to do more business 10 years ago in the month of December, when the tobacco industry was strong, than they do in a 12-month period today. If you go up and down the streets of Tillsonburg today, you'll see closed doors. Tillsonburg was one of those communities that always had a thriving downtown core; it was a model town for a lot of the small rural areas.
The local communities have based their economies around tobacco and the farmers have supported those communities. The unfortunate part now is that the farmer doesn't have the ability to support the community. The farmer is now in what you'd call survival mode, doing whatever he can to survive to the best of his ability. Unfortunately, it's the local community that's paying the ultimate price, whether stores or charitable organizations, even. You just don't have the dollars to put forward to help benefit your local people.