Thank you, gentlemen, for taking the time to be here.
We've heard over and over again that in agriculture in Canada, everybody is making money except the primary producer, and that those people with an input and output are surviving or making money and the producer isn't.
Mr. McNeill, you talked about the cost of safety regulations being prohibitive. There are three choices. Either we retain the status quo, and ultimately the cost gets passed down to the person buying, the producer; or there is some kind of government intervention, and if that's the case, I'd like to know what you have in mind and how that would be worked out. And here again, we have the philosophical question that if there is not enough money to go around to support farmers directly, should government be intervening to support industry? So I'd like your comments on that. I guess the other possibility would be that we would have fewer regulations. So if there are fewer regulations, then this cuts down the costs.
If possible, would all of you gentlemen like to comment on that?
Mr. MacKay, you haven't said anything yet. I thought I'd give you a chance.