Running my farm is like any business—it's all about risk management. I can manage the risk on all the crops I grow outside of the monopoly. I can take my forward-pricing contracts to my bank for my annual review. I can hedge against it. With the CWB, when I get my annual review in the fall, I can't forward-price my wheat contracts till roughly the end of February. The bank won't even look at the PRO price and include that in my annual review.
As a farmer, I look at what I can control in my crops or the systems I have to play with. Mr. Easter mentioned that in 1998 Mr. Goodale changed the act to allow farmers to control the CWB. In a way, they are controlling the CWB. But they are controlling the CWB monopoly. Even if we elected 10 farmers who wanted to get rid of the monopoly, they could not get rid of it under the Canadian Wheat Board Act. We would still have to come back to the Parliament of Canada. So the Parliament of Canada is imposing the Wheat Board on farmers.