If you look at 1998, we probably had lower cash prices than we currently have in the hog industry, but the grain price wasn't double what it was; and I don't know what the dollar was worth back in 1998, but the industry was largely built on a 65¢ dollar. So all of those now are contributing to the problem we have.
The Canadian Pork Council is not pessimistic about their chances for survival. They just know that there's going to have to be a very deliberate, methodical way of addressing the problem without making it worse—because far too often when we address a problem we make it worse—a way that won't make it worse and will maintain them as we go through this period.
Our processing industry is going to suffer as well. If we lose the infrastructure in the production part of the hog industry, we'll start losing our processing capacity as well. And of course, the entire thing is much more than just about farmers and processors. It's about communities. It's about the local hardware store where I buy my supplies.
So it has ramifications throughout the entire rural community.