Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to both of you for coming here today.
There's obviously some lack of detail at the moment. We don't have the details, and you don't either, as to how the money actually will be spent. For all of us, it's a bit of conjecture on our part to figure out exactly what this is. There are some assumptions here that we hope will happen in certain forms.
Travis, you talked about the packer end in the sense of trying to make sure that.... When Mr. Valeriote asked you about where the money should go, you believed that it should go to the packers to keep them open in Canada so that you're not stuck with the U.S. packing system, where basically we're at their mercy.
On the face of it, that seems reasonable, but I would ask you to comment on the fact that what we're seeing in this country is that we still have packers, yes, but they're also contracting in the sense that they're being bought out by one or two major groups that are diminishing the amount of competition they have amongst themselves. They're not necessarily just Canadian national packers either; they're on both sides of the border when it comes to that.
If you see any problem, or if there's an alarm bell going off, albeit quietly, inside of your organization and you're saying that maybe you ought to take a look at this as well and keep an eye as to what goes on here.... Because if we're simply floating money to them--and it's easy to float money across the border--does that necessarily help our cattle producers or does it go to somebody else's bottom line?