I wonder, Mr. Chair, if we could ask the Canadian embassy to look into those bills. If there's one thing the Americans do, it's that they follow everything we do. Our embassy is a little slack in that regard.
In relation to both fertilizer and all agricultural supplies, I hear what the Fertilizer Institute is saying: buy early, hedge, use advance payments, whatever. I guess my concern is with regard to what's really happening here. If it has to be paid for up front, if delivery has to be taken up front, then the farm community is providing the fertilizer companies with an interest-free cash advance on your costs of carrying fertilizer. So I guess I'd have to ask, what's in it for farmers?
Secondly, with regard to security concerns about small agri-retailers, we have farmers out there who are growing huge acreages. In my neck of the woods and elsewhere across the country, I know that you have to have pretty good facilities to put those chemicals in, but can we expect the security costs for on-farm as well? Does anybody know the answer to that? If I'm storing 200 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, am I as a farmer going to be required to meet these security requirements of the Government of Canada? And how does that put me at a disadvantage compared with my competitor south of the border?