Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for coming forward today.
It's been an interesting discussion, and I can assure you it's one we've had often, not only here but in our ridings—obviously, I represent a large cow-calf-producing region. It's an issue nobody really feels they have an answer for.
I do have some concerns with what I'm hearing today. Maybe it's just what happens when such a broad spectrum of organizations gets together. At the end of the day, and as it's been stated here, this was a solution the industry came to us with, obviously hoping regulations would sync up with the Americans. That hasn't happened, which has left a void in the differential there and has left us at a regulatory disadvantage.
I agree, but the answer I'm hearing from you gentlemen is that you want $31.70 a head to make up for that and you want to keep the regulation that's creating the problems.
Mr. Read.