I'll address the other question.
In regard to the Canadian Wheat Board, what we have developed as Canadian farmers is basically an IP market for quality milling wheat and also malt barley, throughout the world. We have repeat customers. India, China, Japan, and England all depend upon our IP market for wheat. The collective marketing of our wheat and barley, primarily our wheat and the malt barley, has given us an IP market that returns a premium to farmers. If we were to get rid of the Wheat Board then that market would be lost.
Now, under the Canadian Wheat Board, when I go to the elevator and I open the hopper in my trailer and dump my 35 tonnes of grain, I own that grain until it hits the cargo of the ship and it's paid for. Without the Wheat Board and in the American system, when you open the chute on your trailer and let the grain go, you've lost control of it right then. It's no longer your grain; it belongs to the multinational or the line company that's bought that grain. You basically have no control of it from there on in. The U.S. is so different from us. Over a thousand different varieties of wheat are grown in the United States. It's absolutely impossible for them to do any type of IP segregation of grains.
Essentially, if we were to get rid of the Wheat Board today, we wouldn't even know which way our transportation system would work. Would grain continue to be exported through the gulf? Would it continue to be exported through Vancouver or Churchill? Perhaps it would just head down the Mississippi on a barge and go out through New Orleans.