Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of you for your presentations to us this morning.
It has long troubled any informed person that while the farmers' share of the cost of food is steadily on the decline, the share of others is increasing all the while. It's not cyclical. As the graph from Mr. Qualman very palpably notes, total expenses being absorbed or being confronted by the farmer are on the increase and there's no ebb and flow. They're just steadily on the increase, as far as I understand the graph.
Simply put, the problem has been identified: the farmer is receiving too little. I suspect farmers are, in many instances, teetering on bankruptcy or insolvency. Of course, the issue is always what you do about it. I appreciate that there have been some recommendations put forward, but if I can ask you, and this is perhaps an unfair question, if any one of you were to be appointed Minister of Agriculture next week--it's not likely to happen, mind you--what, apart from commissioning studies, are the tangible steps you would take to immediately ease the pressure on farmers? Is that at all fair to ask you to...?