Thank you, Mr. Chair.
On the Wheat Board question, Suzanne, the fact of the matter is that if you do a market system, you don't have single-desk selling. That's the reality. So let's not mess around with words. If you have a dual marketing system, you no longer have a single-desk selling system. That's the reality of the world.
On the ethanol/biodiesel program, I just have three quick questions. Has anything been done to ensure that farmers are not just providing another cheap raw material? In other words, will Canadian farmers be given equivalency to U.S. farm product prices for feedstock going into those ethanol plants? It makes no sense from a farmer's perspective to be selling a product below the cost of production. That's number one.
Number two, will you have an equity capital program to provide equity capital so that rural Canada can be involved in the plants themselves and the profits from those plants?
And three, if we're using new generation co-ops, will there be a requirement for the majority to have farm ownership, as there is in the United States, where the required majority of those co-ops is 51% farm ownership?
What I'm saying is that farmers should be involved; the rural community should be involved. They should be able to profit from the production of the product, and they should be able to profit from the output of the business. Unless those requirements are in place, the ethanol/biodiesel system will not do what we want it to do.