Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think this clause dovetails with our previous clause. It's all about transparency.
The honourable member over there says there are more efficiencies. Yes, we sell products on the cellphone and on computers. The issue is that many farmers don't always have the luxury that some other farmers have in regard to who's going to buy and how many rail lines they can go on. Sometimes they're kind of stuck, and I think that if nobody's watching out for how much they're getting paid at the end of the day.... I mean, this is what it's all about, because when you see the numbers.... The numbers are out there. Farmers used to get 90% when you had the single desk, and now they're down to 40%.
But I think that at the end of the day—and Mr. Allen stated it—in the United States there is way more transparency. There's way more transparency in the system. There's a watchdog. You just can't let the total free enterprise system deal with this when some farmers don't have the luxury of having a lot of different buyers to sell to.
You guys are representing these farmers out west. You must know that some of them don't have the flexibility to have so many different buyers and so many different rail lines coming right to their backyard. I think those are the farmers we have to watch out for, those who are not getting.... I don't want to push it as far as saying that they're getting ripped off, but they're getting more deducted than they should from what they should be getting for their product.