I want to zero in on the cross-border issues pertaining to Saskatchewan, North Dakota, and so on. But I want to make a couple of preliminary comments on some of the evidence I've heard here. Somebody mentioned that Saskferco was 51% owned by Mosaic. I want to focus on the other 49%, which to my understanding has been owned by the provincial government. Lorne Calvert and Roy Romanow were premiers for 17 years and they had a 49% interest in Saskferco, so if there were excessive profits in that industry and they were selling fertilizer at a much lower price to the United States than they were in Canada, maybe we should be calling Lorne Calvert and Roy Romanow here to explain how the biggest benefactor in this whole arrangement was the provincial government in Saskatchewan.
While I'm on that point too, the only refiner in Saskatchewan isn't Exxon or Shell or so on, it's Federated Co-operatives. It has an exclusive monopoly on the refinery business in the province of Saskatchewan. It's owned exclusively by Canadians; a large proportion of them are Saskatchewan residents. So if there are excessive profits in that area, they've been accruing back to individual Canadians through a cooperative ownership arrangement.
I do want to look at the cross-border issues. I wish there were some people from the fertilizer industry today, but there aren't. I think Mr. Orb might be the best person to respond to these.
On the differences in prices on the same products between Canada and the United States, the first question I have is this. Do Canadian farmers and producers have the ability to cross the border into the United States and buy fertilizer and machinery and other items? Are there any impediments to doing that?