I'm somewhat familiar with the situation in Quebec. You essentially have a marketing board that sells the finished animals to companies like Olymel. They will also occasionally sell to Maple Leaf or Quality Meat in Ontario.
In Manitoba it's a little different because producers are on their own. They sell their animals to whichever processing company they can access. One company, for example, sells to Hormel Foods in Minnesota. I know a number of companies that sell directly to Morrell in Sioux Falls, and we have producers who ship directly to Maple Leaf.
There's no question that Maple Leaf dominates the situation here in Manitoba. But when you look at prices, the Maple Leaf price is essentially made in the mid-west, backed by transportation costs. We would like to see more competition here in the local market so we can pull back those transportation costs and give producers the potential for an increased return on their sales. The numbers vary from $5 per head, or whatever, but it's in that ballpark.