Thank you to all of you for being here.
Linda, we've received correspondence from you before on this. I'm glad you're here to talk about this. We're here because we'd like to work with you to try to fix this, so we can give some recommendations to the government so this doesn't happen again.
I find it disturbing when you say in your report that you spoke with Jim Scott in the minister's office and he said that unfortunately, AgriStability does not work in this situation. The other thing that bothers me here is when you say, “Our livestock organizations have not been a voice for us.”
It doesn't seem to make sense. If something is not working for a producer, and you belong to an organization...has nothing happened in that regard from the Cattlemen's Association?