I'm not sure what the breakdown is in the budget; I'm just talking blue skies here. But if the federal government got out of the direct support programming and told the provinces it would take this aspect away that they were currently paying for and make it a federal responsibility, if it said, “Now that you're relieved of that portion of cost that we're going to take on, that will give you more flexibility in Ontario to deal with your livestock industry, the grain and oilseeds industry, and the horticulture industry as you see fit”--to me, that makes the most sense.
As a perfect example, I was part of the Grain Growers of Canada when it first got established. It's a great group of people, and I still respect them highly. But somebody who's in the grain business in Saskatchewan has a different point of view and grows very different crops than we grow in Ontario when we're competing with the United States of America. So the business risk management aspect of it all is going to be different.
How can we expect someone from Alberta or Saskatchewan to agree on the same kind of programming that is going to meet the needs of Ontario grain and oilseeds producers? It just ain't gonna happen, right? Yet we're hamstrung because of the framework that the federal BRM programming has put forward.