Mr. Chair, with that, two different committees have suggested a disaster fund, and we talked about a certain amount--$1 billion, $2 billion, or whatever it might be.
With your presentations on going forward, the world today--at least most of our North American world--is governed by oil. Oil has dictated our economy. When we look at your costs of production and the problems that various livestock owners are having, they're all based on oil. Corn and biofuels are based upon the cost of oil. We're talking about oil at $100 a barrel, although today a barrel is in the low nineties.
When you look at your future in terms of five years, how is oil going to reflect on your success in terms of our agricultural communities in Canada? Other countries are producing livestock and so forth without having the same demands for the feedstock that your producers are going to need.
What is going to happen in terms of the vision we would have for the next five years? With what price of oil can you still be successful, or will so much of our grains and corn be changed to oil that livestock in this country is going to be so costly that consumers and the world are going to wonder what's going on in North America and in Canada?