Thank you, John.
Again, as we've heard so many times, getting Bill C-49 passed with the amendments is the critical aspect of it; otherwise, we'll be coming back to deal with this again later on.
One of the things we talked about earlier was the APP and whether it should be raised from $400,000 to $800,000 and so on. All of those things don't help unless you know exactly when you want to use that tool, because if all you're doing is punting it down the road because you've lost all of the contract opportunities and your marketing....
That can work, and you can use it, but you better know that the year before, rather than trying to deal with it on an ad hoc basis.
Of course, the other aspect of it is trade, which is what we really are missing throughout. I was just in Southeast Asia a couple of weeks ago, talking on trade issues. We tried to say that we'll be able to market these products and that they should look at the great things they'll get if they have our Canadian grain or our beef and so on, but they look at it and say that right now they know they can get it from Australia, and there are no issues there. I know we're losing all of these opportunities because of the way people look at it.
That's one of the aspects that we have to recognize. The railways forecast a 2% or 3% increase and say they'll just do it as the economy looks, but as farmers we are increasing the volumes immensely because we have the skills and the tools and we are going from there. The key concern I have is how we keep this pressure on throughout the summer so that they are ready on August 1, when week one shows up, to handle the issues we always face.