Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I have just a couple of comments.
I always find it interesting how the opposition is willing to fight for the status quo for someone other than their own constituents, and I put that in my opening comments about the Wheat Board.
I also find it interesting that Ontario and Quebec have been dealing outside KVD for several years, based on your comment, Mr. Hermanson, and yet they've never raised the question of confidence in the market or the liability issues in those particular cases. It continually amazes me how they're willing to keep western Canadian farmers particularly, as some farmers would say, in the backwoods in delaying their ability to move forward in the industry.
I guess that is my question. With Ontario and Quebec having been outside KVD identification, what liability issues have arisen from that—I understand it's still under your jurisdiction—and do you see that the world's confidence in eastern Canada's marketing of grain has deteriorated because of it?