Thank you, Chair, and I thank the guests for coming.
It's interesting, we're mostly talking about free trade deals here and the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices used it as a platform to take a shot at supply management. But that's fair, that's why you're here.
I only get one five-minute question. I'm hoping that my colleagues will step up to the plate and hold you guys accountable if they're in favour of supply management. That's where my question is going to go.
I've talked to the poultry processors and the Canadian grocers association. They're in favour of supply management. They say it's because the quality stays consistent, and the size is quality, supply, and the price is stable. Without supply management they say it's only a minimal drop in a lot of those products.
I visited many states in the United States, especially the southern states, not the ones close to the border, that use the loss leaders of milk and that. Also in New Zealand—imagine, New Zealand, the land of the big milk—for cheese, yoghurt, and milk a lot of the prices are the same as they are in Canada, or a little higher. Some people think that without supply management we're all of a sudden going to have all these cheap products out of Canada. There are some studies out there on how much money you guys make on the milk. They say it's almost 50% on a glass of milk, so if it's a $2 glass of milk, you guys get $1 dollar from it. I don't know if that's true or not.
I have a couple of questions. My first one is: without supply management, because you're in favour of getting rid of it, for the sake of us destroying many of our farm families, is it that advantageous for you guys to make an extra quarter on a glass of milk?