Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to follow up on some of these questions.
It is very important that we, as a committee, try to drill down and find some of the answers to some of the points that have been brought up in the discussion we had today, so forgive me if I interrupt you. I'm trying to get as many answers as I can, because quite frankly, the farmers and producers we all represent around this table feel they are not getting the results they should be getting from the Competition Bureau.
We need to find out whether or not it's a problem on your side or if it's a problem with the act itself that restricts or inhibits you from doing what we need to get done.
It seems in your conversation, Mr. Taylor, that you talk....
First, coming from a rural background, I take offence to hearing you talk about cheaper prices in the United States for things like automobiles and televisions and barbecues and things that are produced in the United States, and in any way whatsoever comparing that to fertilizer cost. As Mr. Easter said very clearly, the primary cost in fertilizer production is natural gas. In 2005-06 we had some of the lowest natural gas prices we've had in quite some time. In my riding we have an Agrium fertilizer plant, and my producers are paying sometimes double and triple what producers in the United States are paying for fertilizer. There is no comparison between barbecues and television sets.
I don't want this to be confrontational. I want to ask you this. It seems as if the two components you have in this are dominance and profitability, as you yourself have said.