I can catch up to date.
I guess I missed that in my opening statement. I apologize, I didn't catch the name of the person who was asking Mr. Nilsson the questions.
Now that you've toured our facility and you see the effort that goes into processing to get a pound of meat, I think it would be nice...and I make that offer to everybody in this room, because I think you're going to have time shortly to visit the Colbex-Levinoff facilities, so that you understand that we might not be that big boy trying to put the producers out of this country. Without them, we can't operate.
We've been living under that since BSE. I think it's time we realize and open our eyes up to this environment, that our capacity is disappearing. Maybe it's not important. And that's why building that fab room is critical to our competitiveness. We talked about global production. We want to compete. Do we want to compete globally? Maybe the globe is Canada, but this room has to decide. If that's the case, then we'd reduce this herd by 60% and we wouldn't have to worry about issues around the world; we'd only feed our country. We should decide what we want to do. To always be under the gun that we're trying to pick off the producer is completely wrong. We're trying to stay in business. We employ a lot of people.
To come back to your question, I thank you for visiting us. It's much appreciated.
We plan on moving forward with that. We think it's a necessity. The board is meeting today. We do have some guidelines, but they're vague guidelines on the money. I think the industry would be kind of naive to say we're upset that it's a loan. There will be some people in the room that maybe think it should be, when we thought it was a grant, so maybe we are disappointed there. Again, that decision is unfolding as we speak. We're only now getting the final cost to it, about how much it really is to put that building on with all the permits and the engineering costs, etc. But to maintain a good viable operation for the future, it should happen.
Does that answer your question, André?