I respectfully tend to disagree; we can't have the best of both worlds. I think we can have a system for those who want to use the Canadian Wheat Board. It won't be a system that includes a monopoly or a single desk. But there are a lot of cooperatives out there that are really good examples of how this can work. We're working really hard to find a system that is going to work, for those who want to keep it.
The Canadian Wheat Board is not an institution I want to do business with or would choose to do business with, if I had an option. It's just like any other aspect of our business. We choose who we sell our canola to, and our lentils and our chickpeas. We establish great relationships, and we either agree with their administration or we don't, we agree with their bureaucracy or we don't, and we can shop ourselves around.
This is the issue we have with the Canadian Wheat Board. It just doesn't fit our business, and we don't agree with their practices. We don't necessarily agree with their governance.
I'd like to see it as not being an arm of government. We have an act that governs it; we have a minister who governs it. It's not run and operated by farmers, when it's that close to government. There's got to be a way that we can separate it and have it work for those producers who really want to use it. Who knows? I might eat my words and decide that I want to sell grain to them when it's a voluntary system.