Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I apologize for having to go into the House, not necessarily to hear Mr. Atamanenko, but I have to say you were brilliant.
It seems that this issue, from what we've heard in previous testimony--in terms of farm input costs--is one of the sore spots. When we hear your case today, it comes more into balance. I'm wondering what the process is to get some kind of reconciliation on these perspectives towards a solution that is actually workable.
When I look at the presentation by the CFI, I see a graph of U.S. fertilizer prices on page 2. Then I see a different one on Canadian fertilizer prices. Then on the third page--which I would think would give me a better perspective between the northern plains and western and eastern Canada--it's in a chart form. You can see it leads to only more questions in terms of our being able to determine if each of these graphs would compare U.S. fertilizer prices and Canadian fertilizer prices for farmers.
When we say farmers, are we always talking Canadian farmers? That's the first question.
If we had to sell this, say, to the government or to this committee in terms of being able to say, you're right, there isn't any kind of huge price disparity, that it's localized or it's occasional as opposed to being the norm.... You can see where I'm coming from in terms of our trying to reconcile this, to be able to address it or report to the government so they can act in a positive way, without making it look like last week the numbers showed that you guys could pay it off on Tuesday and it wouldn't be a financial cost to you because you're making so much money.
Please go ahead, panel.