Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, gentlemen. I agree with Mr. Bellavance that you are great advocates for your industry, and what a terrible time to be going through in your industry.
I gather that you people have a huge amount of experience in the industry. I've spoken to a couple of you before, and obviously you are very learned and very experienced in the industry.
From what I can gather, it is, as somebody mentioned, the perfect storm here, because I understand we have an oversupply of pork and cattle; we have a dollar at par, or in some periods a little more than par; we have high input costs, probably higher than you've ever experienced; and it seems that we're in some of the lowest prices we've seen in a considerable amount of time. Everything seems to be happening at once.
In your experience, has that ever happened before? Have we ever had everything coming at us at once?