We could try that, but the difficulty may be that once we get down that road.... Of course, whenever we make those kinds of changes to an established process—right now, it's below 85% protein level and different rates above that—the Americans will certainly challenge it.
Our concern is that under NAFTA, the Americans will not only challenge it but likely use the opportunity to challenge the whole supply management system. That's the real danger, and what I said to the Dairy Farmers of Canada is that if we can negotiate something with our processors on milk composition standards and the whole use of MPCs, what we do with the excess dry milk powder, and so on, then we can do it internally. We can secure the market and create our own domestic market for MPCs, or whatever it might be. That's the best way forward.
If we throw it open, it's the old situation, and it becomes like a court case with the Americans. We might win, but what's the danger of rolling the dice with this if we lose? If we lose, the Americans will be delighted to take us to court. But they won't just challenge us on MPCs, they'll challenge the whole system, because we won that battle back in 1996. But if they reopen the battle again, they'll say this is a delightful time to do it. Of course, they're eyeing our market hungrily, and we're trying to protect our supply management system.
I'm concerned that if we throw that open into a court type case, like we did with the CITT, then you may win, but you might lose big too. So that's why I'm encouraging the processors.... And I'm pleased to see the processors and the farmers working together to try to negotiate something.