The Canadian Wheat Board works in the best interests of all farmers, not just separate little bits and pieces, and they will not fraction up their accounts to make farmers compete against each other. This is basically why we're here today, to talk about competitiveness. I don't want to compete with other farmers. I want to compete as a nation, as a whole. When those products are pooled, we hold the rest of the world at ransom. We've got the best bread wheat in the world. We trade most of the durum in the world. If that's all in one pile, you have to come through the Canadian Wheat Board to get it, and we get more money.
On June 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.