I want the people sitting at this table to be clear that all of our respective agencies--I won't speak for them--and other commodities in Canada have these programs in place. I think there's that inherent belief that Canada's food is safe. And that is continuing. We saw with the avian influenza in 2004 that there was no change in consumption. In fact in some areas of the country it actually increased. There is the confidence in our products and support for the farmer and the industry.
I think it has become and it's going to become more of a financial burden to implement. That seems to be the issue at present. As stated in our presentation, it's the public good, but at what point does the public have to begin to take their part of the responsibility for the cost of providing this?
We just want to be clear that the biosecurity is in place. It always has been. It has basically come down to the point of proving that this is taking place on a daily basis on farms across the country.