Thank you, Chair.
It's very interesting to listen to you, Ms. Ross and Mr. Tait, and I want to welcome you here today. I'm glad you showed up.
I'm going to pick up on what you were saying about how consumers want to be in contact with the farmers. They want to know what's going on in their operations. They want to be able to touch, or at least to have an idea where the stuff comes from.
I get confused with NFU on their stance on the Canadian Wheat Board then, because we had a group of farmers in southern Saskatchewan a few years ago trying to get together to do that. They actually tried to create their own durum milling plant, so they could actually produce their own durum and sell it directly. Of course, that agency got in the way.
I assume then, if you're all in favour of getting that close connection to the farmer, you must be willing to ask that marketing regulatory board we have, that noose around our necks, to allow some flexibility or at least some guidance so that we can do that, would you not?