Yes, it is, Mr. Chair. I thank you for that. I guess B.C. is not the sunshine place we think it is; Mr. Atamanenko is snowed in, it seems.
Let me follow up on my colleague's questions around slaughterhouses. On the one hand, we hear producers talk about slaughterhouses from the perspective of needing to see more across the country; on the other, there's the perspective of needing access to them. We're really kind of caught, it seems to me, between the producer saying they need access in that competitive sense, and the others saying....
I understand your sense of efficiencies. I come out of an industry that relies on efficiencies. Your sense is that you need to have a certain number go through every day. Otherwise you're not efficient. And that's fair. That's usually what happens with industries when they get extremely efficient and when they get more automated, or if, indeed, they use new processes.
Perhaps you could square that circle for me; I'm new to the agriculture committee. Producers are saying that it's not necessarily great for them. But it may necessarily be great for you, at the processing end of the business.