I would probably epitomize someone who believes in a free market. I think the cattle population, other than in the period of BSE when it was abnormally forced to increase, will find its level. We are firm believers that we are actually, over the next five or ten years, going to return to some very profitable periods for the producers.
One of the true tragedies of BSE was that it was in a period that would have been a good period for the Canadian producers. Because of BSE and the restrictions we had on meat exports and all that entailed, we had tough times.
In the long term, we believe we should be moving into better pricing as some of the liquidation moves forward. I'm a firm believer that the market does do this. There are market cycles. We had a disruption in this one, and that has caused tremendous harm for our producers, but those market cycles will dictate that prices recover. We're seeing a contraction in the cattle herd and I believe the long-term consequence of that will be improved pricing.
I think if we want to prejudge how many cattle we should have in the country, we're wrong. I think this is something that the collective of all the producers will decide in regard to how much they want to be in the business, and that is the proper judge of it.