Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, guests, for coming on this short notice.
Yes, the situation is a crisis. For the government to pat themselves on the back about the rail strike that never even happened, I think we have to look at how we get the grain moving presently.
The numbers are big. You have a $7-billion crop out there, and you're going to lose $2 billion. It says here, $1.2 billion from wheat and $800 million from canola. These are big numbers.
When I look at the different summations that are here today, the reality is that last June there was a signal that this was going to be a big crop. With the single-desk selling gone, and it states here in an article—