Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to let you know that I will share my time with Mr. Shipley.
Unfortunately, seven minutes isn't enough to ask all the questions I want to ask you guys. We could talk about the fertilizer industry, we could talk about the packing plants, we could talk about grocery stores. It seems like whatever we talk about, you don't have big enough fangs to tackle it properly. I'm always concerned that the person who pays is the farmer. I get really concerned when I listen to things like what Mr. Bellavance was talking about, where we're trying to get stuff into the grocery stores and the grocery stores are starting to charge for shelf space. I just wonder how in the world that's allowed to go on. Or there's the case of an independent grocery, and when they want to go shop around for a local supplier, their wholesaler comes up and says, if you buy locally we're going to penalize you and make sure you don't have supply when local supply isn't available.
What tools do you have available to address those issues? The person getting penalized here is the farmer and the independent grocer.