Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
On Roger's question about how to deal with it, I can refer to British Columbia and the potato anti-dump that is now going towards 25 years. We've just won our case again for the province on Washington State and Idaho dumping product into Canada, in this case particularly into the Vancouver market area. It's a countervail action.
In the case of what Greg is talking about, is that a possibility when it comes to cherries? Do we just let this continue? We'll be eaten up sooner or later, no pun intended. It's a huge problem out there.
We ask you, as politicians and panel members, to get this message to your cabinet members or whatever: if they want us as farmers in this country to stay farming--and God knows we're seeing mass changes in the types of operations that are going on--we not only have to be sustainable, but we have to be able to make money at what we're doing. Unfortunately, too many of us are going sideways and, in some cases, out of business. That's not good enough.
You can call it a cheap-food policy, but who's responsible for that? At what point do politicians have to take a position? If you feel agriculture is important to the public in this country, then obviously a priority has to be to make sure the farmer can make a living out of it.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.