I too have had some experience dealing with the Competition Bureau. One experience was in regard to the consolidation in the hog slaughter industry. At the time, the Competition Bureau in its wisdom found that of course there was competition in Manitoba because we could deliver our hogs to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which is only 800 or so miles away. That was their version of competition in that case. I've also had some exposure to consolidations in the grain industry, and I've watched the rulings there.
When one looks at the Competition Bureau, one shouldn't look at it in isolation. When one hears rhetoric coming out from time to time that they're going to remove the restrictions on foreign investment, that means concentration; they're removing the barriers on concentration of ownership.
We also have to be very sensitive to the capacity of people in the farm community to criticize what's taken place, because in so doing, you're criticizing the entity that may be supplying you with your trade credit and your imports, and the entity that you may be, in the end, delivering your product to.
This situation should not exist. This is a very unhealthy situation.
As it's functioning today, it's there for name only.