Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My home is similarly equipped with a carrier pigeon. Everyone refuses to use a computer at my house because it's so slow.
I have a couple of questions for Matthew and Trent, and then for Mathieu at the end. When we start to talk about value-added change, it drives me half crazy, to be honest. As someone from the auto sector, I heard this for a long time. But let me give you my experience really quickly, as I only have five minutes.
The bottom of the value-added chain is the small guy who makes the bits, and he's the guy who gets run out of business at the end of the day. They go and find somebody else who wants to start by making the bits. The problem with agriculture is that you make a big bit. You make a bit that we're actually going to consume at some point, at the end of the day. But regarding the value added to agriculture, quite frankly, I wouldn't eat half of the stuff that's in the centre of the grocery store with value added to it. It's not healthy for me any more, especially at my age.
So I have difficulty with the terminology sometimes. I would ask folks to think about it, because you are not necessarily adding value to foodstuffs; the stuff you make is actually of the highest value we can possibly have. Whatever we add to it, somebody else marks it up and takes a couple more pennies for themselves. We just don't get money for you. So I'm not so sure I like the term. In fact, I know I don't like the term, and I would just ask folks to think about the terminology.
In Mathieu's case, he's talking about becoming a processor, not necessarily a primary producer—if he's talking about doing cheese. So I guess my question to Mathieu is, do you see compatibility between being a primary producer and a processor as well, or do you see a distinct difference between the two and think that you should choose? I ask this because in the dairy industry not all of you can be processors and farmers and producers. I'll go around shopping for cheese for the cheapest price and Allan may want to make it cheaper than you do, in which case you'll be running to the bottom again, and I don't think that's a good place to be.