That's a really good question. I want to make it very clear right at the outset that we think the AgriStability program is excellent. It has evolved over several years since the 1990s and has helped producers through times when prices went up and down. That's what it's meant to do.
What it's not meant to do is deal with a long-term decline in margins. We saw that when we had the grains and oilseeds program a few years ago. The CASE program at that time didn't work any longer because they had no margins left. I think we see that situation developing now. We've been in this downturn long enough that the CASE program is not going to help our producers in the 2009 situation. That's accepted. It wasn't meant to do that; it was meant to deal with fluctuations. We're in a downturn now that has lasted longer than it should have, and it's now further complicated by COOL and H1N1.
To go a little further, it's an excellent program, but there are a lot of things we would like to see changed. Our industry tends to have a lot of larger producers, so the caps on some of these existing programs have always been an issue for us. We see a very large percentage of our industry not protected by the existing programs because they get capped out. It's a real issue for us, because large producers tend to contract with small producers. So it affects many people, even though sometimes governments look at these programs and say they don't want one big cheque going to one big producer. It impacts a large percentage of our industry.
Those are probably our concerns.