Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We were visiting a feedlot and a killing plant in Alberta. It is interesting; you mentioned the concern about the killing plants owning the cattle. We visited a feedlot in Alberta and, lo and behold, as we were touring it we found that a lot of the cattle in there he didn't own. He was feeding them for the plants.
We also found out that in the United States there was a law passed through the U.S. Congress--I'm not sure on the date, I don't think it's more than a week--that processors are not allowed to own cattle for more than a week. The chair might correct me on this. They're not allowed to own cattle, period. It is for that reason, because they were holding cattle in the United States and they were making the prices...pulling the farmers down.
I guess my first question is, do you think there should be legislation in Canada similar to that of the United States on that ruling of packers owning cattle?