I think a couple of points need to be made here.
Ms. Hillard, you made a comment that you weren't invited to be part of the process, and that's unfortunate. I'm glad you're here. But something that I think your group has to remember, and it needs to be pointed out by industry, is that we have a cheap food policy in this country that's basically come about mostly because of consumer groups like you.
We have the lowest percentage of disposable income spent on food of any well-to-do country in the world, and it's dropping. It's going down as we speak. I always use the example of potatoes or eggs and the price of them. I don't know how the producers who produce them can sell them for that when you figure what meals you get out of them.
So I think that price to a group like yours should be secondary to a safe and abundant food supply. I think groups like you have an obligation to the people you represent and to the people from whom you basically get your products, which are the agricultural producers, to help and promote--eat Canadian, because it's safe, it is abundant, and we want to keep it that way. If we keep going on the road we're headed on, it isn't going to be either. So I think you have to help the industry sell that message.
Another thing, Mr. Sopuck--