Thank you for coming, folks.
I'm from Nova Scotia. You probably know our president of Pork Nova Scotia, Gerald Vermeulen. He's one of the largest operators. He's got a very efficient operation, and he's ready to close his doors. You can see the drop in your numbers here. When you look at Nova Scotia and P.E.I. together, I think there's an over 50% drop on the year. Look at the hog numbers that are coming out. It's pretty well decimated down on the east coast.
What happens when these numbers start going down is that all of a sudden the plant is in jeopardy. We have that with the beef; we have only one plant. We have only one kill plant for the hogs. I guess my question to you is, what can governments or the association do? Mostly what we talk about is the trade and the bigger picture, and that helps everybody, but what can we do federally and provincially to help this industry from losing altogether in the Maritimes?