First of all, in terms of the numbers that have been related there, we operate on the world market in what we receive. When you take a look at this--and it hasn't been easy, which is their assumption, that it's been a cakewalk--the question then is why are we seeing our processors operating at 70% capacity? Why have all the new entrants that came into business a couple of years ago now gone out of business? There isn't just a simple question of captive supply and their getting a much larger portion of this. There are regulatory and cost issues all the way through the entire value chain that need to be addressed. There hasn't been a single one of the producer-owned plants that's been viable, that's been brought forward on either side of the border over the last 10 years. There's been more rationalization. That's a reality that's occurred around the world in concentration.
What is going to be critically important to get competitive bidding--and I think at the end of the day that's the real issue here--is how we can maintain access to a sufficient number of plants so that every day there's active enough bidding that we're getting appropriate value back in terms of the finished product, the beef products and the other products, what they're worth from those animals. The great devaluation we've seen over the last three months is the price of tallow and hides. The beef product itself has actually held up fairly well.
That gets back to the question of how we reduce the cost going into the border and get rid of some of the uncertainty going into the border, because clearly, at this point in time, having access to those additional plants, they recognize, as was indicated earlier, that our cattle are some of the highest yielding cattle in the world. They like processing Canadian cattle. In our view, it is always going to get back to how to create enough competitive bidding around those cattle to achieve that.