Part of the problem is comparing eastern Canada to western Canada, Myron, and you also compared the U.S. to Canada. We also compare Europe to Canada, and then look at the value-adding that's done. Part of the thing I have noticed over the years is that value-added comes as your population grows more and more. If we had three times or four times the number of people in western Canada, we would have more value-added to service that industry.
For a lot of the value-added, especially on the products we produce, like flour and things like that, it's cheaper to move the bulk product than it is to move the flour.
People also want the jobs where they, the people, are located. If we're shipping grain to Japan, we say, why can't we sell them our canola oil? Why can't we sell them our flour? The Japanese don't want those things to begin with, because they provide jobs in their own fields. If you talk to the pulp industry or the lumber industry, it's the same thing.
If you talk about the garment industry, which we've basically lost in Canada, it was a value-added industry at one point in eastern Canada. It has gone to where the labour charges are cheaper too.
So labour, population, and what it costs to transport the value-added good when compared to the raw product sometimes have a great bearing on where value-added is going to take place.
I know we went through the debate when they said they were going to take the Crow benefit away. We all went through that and we lost all that. It didn't add very much value-added in our country, but that was a big promise of the day.