Here in Nova Scotia it's past time that this country believes you can have more than just one unified program. It's coming to be that while we're not going to separate from our national organization, we have to start speaking out and saying what the needs of Nova Scotia are. We're starting to do that.
The needs of Nova Scotia are probably that we will agree that we can't support a CAIS margin-based program, but I can easily see that the western producers would still like to see that around, and they're going to be forceful about having it around, because they're worried about trade. Since we're not in a trading area, the Maritimes will not profit from that. We don't trade. It hurts the Maritimes, because we get a national or a North American price. We have no benefit from that. In the last five years, we've never had a huge increase in price, because we have trade in this country.
If we look at pork, if I remember, in my younger years we were exporting about 25% or 30%. It wasn't a huge problem. Now, at over 50%, we're vulnerable to whoever wants to buy our pork as the cheapest in the world. We can't compete worldwide. Brazil can raise pork cheaper than the U.S., so we have all these guys attacking us.
We'll never compete, so we have to be smart with our policies. We only have so much money, and it's about time to really separate the regions of Canada by what their problems are.