Alex's amendments raise a number of points that are legitimate concerns. That's what you hear when you are in the country. The gentleman from REAP raised the issue this morning of whether there are more sensible ways of reducing greenhouse gases. So they are legitimate concerns.
There's certainly concern--I heard it in Saskatchewan last week--about cattle prices and where they're at. People are going into cattle, tearing up marginal land, and putting in higher-value crops. There are some concerns there, but as André says, they are more provincial jurisdictions.
I have a couple of questions for the witnesses.
Based on the points that Alex's amendment raises, on the inputs to ethanol itself—and maybe you can answer them and maybe you can't—what are the restrictions on corn coming in from the U.S.? We hear that American subsidized corn is coming into the Chatham plant in Ontario, and around 80% of the production base in that plant—I think it's around there, Larry—is coming from the United States.
Is there any way to prevent that? I know we can prevent it if it's considered dumping, but what are our protective measures there for our producers?
Second is the importation of ethanol from Brazil. In Brazil they're producing ethanol very cheaply from sugar cane. If a tanker of ethanol comes up the St. Lawrence--which is quite possible--do the subsidies that the government has in place apply to that ethanol? Could we be in a situation where we are subsidizing ethanol in Canada that was produced in Brazil?