There's a lot in the question you've asked.
First, I came here understanding a reasonable amount about the issues here, but you can never understand those issues fully until you're on the ground and working through them. So I'm still in the process of working through those, to some extent.
As I said previously, I think the idea of single selling, of the single sales channel, is a good one, but you just can't assume that's the model for everything. It does depend on the market you're in, the customer base, and the arrangements you have. There's no question that the Canadian Wheat Board and the sale of Canadian grain, particularly internationally, has been aided by the ability to keep the product together and keep the consistent quality and the high level of that consistency together. In my view, there's no doubt that's been a very good arrangement, particularly in those products where the customer is very interested in quality, and that would be in some particular areas, wheat, malt, barley, etc.
I work for the board of directors of the Canadian Wheat Board, and as the president of the Canadian Wheat Board I'll be looking to chart the best future I can for the organization. As an organization we need to look at what the long-term plans for the organization are and we need to be able to contemplate what they might be. To some extent, there's no question that is a negotiation with government, because it controls the act and it controls the future of the Canadian Wheat Board in that sense.
It's not an easy task, and some people have asked me why I took it on. All I can say is that while it seemed to me a difficult task, and I'm finding out how difficult that is as I go through this, I felt it was one that my background and my experience in running single-desk organizations, in being involved in deregulation to some extent--but the learning is from that, not the model that's associated with that, necessarily--might be useful for me in terms of helping the Canadian Wheat Board and the government, and the industry in a sense, work through these issues, as we have to do.