Certainly, I think one of my colleagues who testified, Mr. Fraser, did touch on the key points around the code of conduct and the competitiveness that is at the national level within retail. There are so few players that drive a price-driven market, which pushes down on the growers, who are price-takers. That is part of the challenge, especially when you look at it in the context of global and domestic, and it's the combination therein that creates the complexity of the question you ask. When you start looking at the cost of inputs, the cost of labour, even on entry now, if you want to be a farmer, the cost of land and/or transition of land from one generation to another, you begin looking at a very steep hill to climb as a producer. As you bring it all together, you start looking at what your market looks like, and a delivery of a product with a very small margin in a price-taking market can create a very strong hurdle for a Canadian producer.
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