Well, I think we've contrived more of the issue than actually is there in reality; we're a little bit afraid. It's all, don't do this because we'll get hit with countervailing duties.
I also sat in on that when we were trying to do something about the declining margins for farmers at the NCC, where we had a fairly high-level official from the United States talking about a program for compensating their farmers. At the end of it, one of the producers said, what if we come up with the same program to feed our producers the kinds of money they should get? They said we'd be subject to countervailing duties, as they wouldn't stand for it. So there's something wrong there.
I believe for most of the issues around this, there are clauses in the WTO and other trade agreements allowing for regional flexibility and allowing one to bring somewhat economically depressed regions up to certain levels. The same rules don't apply. But, again, we're applying the same rules to all the regions, such as Newfoundland and Labrador, as we are to Ontario and B.C. and to all the rest of them.
So I think we need to get inside this a little bit and understand the issues. Producers have been bamboozled. I believe politicians have been bamboozled by the bureaucrats, who have no accountability to anybody. The difference in the United Sates, of course, is that the politicians are tied to the producers who put the policy together and elect them and kick them out of office if they don't perform. That's one of our big problems.