If I can just say, Mr. Chair, in terms of looking at some of the things you can put back on the table, including the Easter report, there was an APF review, chaired by Ed Tyrchniewicz, that every producer in this country sat at the table with, along with government. I wonder, did somebody blow that up? I haven't heard of it anytime since we finished it off. There's a lot of good stuff in there, so let's learn from that.
I agree with you on being able to maybe take the CFA farm bill and move it forward, but I think if we could achieve the goals of getting the main principles into what we're trying to achieve, we will have achieved a lot. So we may have to focus on the principles.
But let there be no doubt about it; there were lots of examples out there and lots of examples south of the border that we can take if we only have the political will to do it. We're too goddamn afraid to do it. What's wrong with us? Let's have some backbone. And yes, we're going to have a bit of countervail. Maybe we have to take a little bit of a risk.
You know, right away, in talking about CFA, I want to maintain as much solidarity with CFA as I can, but at the same time I see some paranoia there. They're afraid to talk about protecting COP, because if you mention COP, it resembles supply management somehow and they're afraid of countervail.