Thank you very much for the question. We've heard about own-use importation. Ways of creating competition in the market are a good thing.
There are a number of other things we can do. One, we can get some good data. In the late 1990s, Statistics Canada ceased publishing input cost data in Canada. We had a long go-round with them. If the committee could do something tomorrow, could they please get Statistics Canada to resume that data set that they terminated in the late 1990s? You heard a lot about prices. Everyone's got different prices from different places, and that's because Stats Canada--due to cost-cutting and pressure from the industry--just quit telling us what fertilizer cost and what chemicals cost. So restart that.
Two, we need to look at moving agriculture to less input dependence in this country. Input costs are high and they're going up, but if you're input dependent, that makes you more and more vulnerable. The biggest margins and the most profitable farmers in Canada are often organic producers. Not everyone can go organic and we don't want to push everyone in that direction. But balancing the push to high-input agriculture with a push to alternative input-optimized and organic would be a good thing.
The final thing I'd say is stop the mergers. The reason we got to this point is--