Sure. Thank you.
We like “buy Canadian”; that works for us. As somebody said before, we have 140,000 people and 85,000 acres of potatoes. We can't eat them all, so we need markets out of our province.
We've really found, to be quite honest, that when we meet with our friends in Quebec, they've done a tremendous job in dealing with their retailers and having their support in selling Quebec potatoes. Our market share in Quebec has really dropped drastically, and they've done a very good job on quality and everything else.
When we go to Ontario, too, we're running into “Foodland Ontario”, for example. I don't pretend to be an expert on “Foodland Ontario”, but we're being told they don't want to list us in the stores because of promotions in certain periods of “Foodland Ontario”. So we're bumping into that, and it's really affecting our ability to get in the market earlier. We used to be in Toronto, definitely by late September and so on. Now we're not there until some time in November, and it's getting moved back all the time.
As I say, we like “buy Canadian”. We do buy products from the rest of Canada for other needs in agriculture and in manufactured goods--cars, all that type of stuff; we simply find that it's a bit of a trade impediment for us with a lot of retailers.
