The issue is that livestock production is moving all over the place. It used to be in the seventies that Ontario was the major livestock feedlot industry in Canada. Then it shifted more to the west and the big facilities that are out there are handling a lot of cattle out of Alberta. What's happening is that in Quebec, government stabilization...they have it wrong. What's happening is that they're stabilizing livestock producers in that province, and then those same cattle are coming into Ontario's market, and it's fine that they come to the slaughter facility here. What I have an issue with is the fact that the farmers in Quebec are being stabilized and then those cattle are coming into Ontario's market, which is going to pot, and it's the same with Alberta cattle. They're coming into this market in Ontario, where we're no longer producing enough cattle for our own demand.
If you want to stabilize your cattle in your province, that's fine if you stabilize to your own demand. When your stabilization causes grief for other provinces, then I have a huge issue with that. So we need to draw the line somewhere. Is government support going to start skewing the whole industry or is government support going to help the industry? It's fine if you can stabilize to your own production requirements. If you want to encourage livestock production in your province, I think that's a great thing, if that's what you have to do in order to have production in your province. But they come into eastern Ontario and they buy calves because they can afford to pay more for them, and I can't compete with that. So what do I end up doing? I feed cattle for a guy from Quebec. That's how bad it is.