Yes, I could address that.
I guess it goes back to the company's cost of production. Some of the information we've been finding is in fact—and I know Mr. Qualman touched on it—mergers of some of these huge companies. Some of these companies have actually bought out their suppliers. They're truly vertically integrated. The third-quarter profits for some of these companies last year were just astronomical.
Fertilizer prices have gone up a lot more. The price of natural gas, which is a base for nitrogen fertilizer, really is quite stable, and it showed in Ag Canada's records, which have tracked anhydrous ammonia in the United States for years.
So what we're saying is we don't mind that these companies are making a profit, because we realize it creates jobs and it creates taxes, but at the same time we're asking it to be reasonable.
Last year, we saw the federal finance minister step in and say to the automakers in Canada, “Let's start lowering the price of your vehicles, because you're way out of line with the prices in the United States.” We were surprised that he said that. Maybe we should be asking the finance minister to say, “Look at the ag retailers in Canada, buying your products from Canadian producers and shipping them down to United States customers at a higher price. There's something wrong with the system.” We're asking the committee to look at that.