We're over-regulating our industry and we're not putting our farmers on an equal playing field with those in the United States or in other countries we compete with.
This is a key component to things we need to deal with. Mr. Easter is right. We need to deal with some of these CFIA costs. We have addressed that. It was actually my colleague, Mr. Miller, who brought that motion before the committee.
Mr. Atamanenko, I disagree with putting more regulations into it, and I think it's important that somebody correct the record. The Government of Canada, through Bill C-8, has taken tremendous steps that our shipping industry as well as our producers asked for.
Group FOA is very substantive in holding the railways to account, as well as the level-of-service review, which I believe is already being started.
These are only some of the initial steps we need to take. They are some very substantive steps.
I read the Keystone report on fertilizer, and that is something I have some questions for you on. I'm not an interventionist, but the market is supposed to correct things. When the dollar goes up, our input costs should go down and our exports become more expensive. Well, we've seen our exports become more expensive across the board, but on our import costs, that same dollar is not buying any more than it used to. As a matter of fact, the Keystone report shows that it's buying less.
I'd like some very frank recommendations from you, gentlemen, on how we can address that--anhydrous and fertilizer being just two. We need to be proactive on this, or else we're going to get ourselves in a situation where the industry is coming to us saying they need more money and they need it now, just like we're facing with the pork and cattle situation.
I think we should start with Mr. Meyer.