Wyatt, on your comment about your dad and your grandpa being able to buy so many vehicles, of the buying power, it reminds me that I bought my first cattle in the fall of 1972, when I was 16, sold them in 1973, and made enough to buy a brand-new, top-of-the-line Ford pickup. I thought, wow, farming's for me. I haven't made that much money on cattle since. So it's a good example.
Just before we move on, Mr. Butler, you mentioned navigable waterways and what have you. I used to think it was just an issue in Ontario, but I found out through some groups from Saskatchewan and Alberta that it was happening right across the way. There were some changes made to the Navigable Waterways Protection Act. It was fought by the bureaucracy and it was fought by environmental groups. But basically they were intermittent water streams that only ran in the spring in ditches that had been created as either on-farm drainage or as municipal drains. They would only run water in the spring and fall of the year, but because at some time a small minnow or something would go up there or somebody could put a canoe in it for a week in the spring, they became navigable waterways. That has been changed. I'm not going to say that it's perfect, but at least there has been some change there.
We'd like to hear some more comments on that, because obviously a lot of it was that the problems were created by over-zealous Department of Fisheries and Oceans employees. I urge any of you, with those kinds of things, pass them on to your MPs. Change is always slow, but it's the only way that government ever can deal with them.
I'll move on. We are just coming down to the end of our time.
Frank, I'll ask you to keep it to one question and we'll do that. We just have a few minutes. One question. I'm sorry, but we have another group coming in at 9:30.