At the same time, although I've been concerned about the rising cost of feed grains, even if we didn't do our program here in Canada, it's completely influenced by what's happening south of the border, especially on the corn price. Barley and wheat are tied to corn, and that's what's going through the roof.
One thing was different in what we heard here this morning from what we heard in western Canada. The pork industry, for example, loved the CAIS program. They thought it worked; they thought margin-based was the way to go. I've never been a fan of it, so I throw myself in the camp you guys are in, that a margin-based program doesn't work, especially on mixed farm operations.
We're talking about having regional top-up types of programs. The other issue that came out of western Canada is that they didn't want to see any of that. They didn't want to see having those companion programs at a provincial level because it would affect trade. Trade neutrality has been a big issue.
How do you, especially when you work with your national organizations, balance the issues of trade neutrality and the programming they desire with programming that will work in your area?
Monsieur Boudreau.