I don't want to leave the impression that I'm completely negative on this. I'm trying to show what the impacts are going to be. I'm only a voter. I try to be as objective as I can in my research, and I think I'm correct about the impacts.
I have not done research on canola. I don't know what the answer is. I observe what's going on in the livestock industry now. By the way, I'm not beholden to the livestock industry. But I have noticed the economic vigour in rural areas as the livestock sector started to move back into western Canada after the removal of the WGTA, or maybe a little earlier.
At the end of the 1980s, Canada was almost self-sufficient in beef production. We were small net exporters in some years and small net importers in other years. By the time of the BSE crisis, we were 40% net exporting.
The pig sector has grown rapidly also. This has generated all kinds of economic activity throughout the rural prairie provinces. I think it's in some jeopardy now.