It is, in fact, to an extent, a function of that capacity to process, and that really does dictate market prices. In the east, they will pay more for animals. That is where the processing facilities are, so there's an opportunity to do that. There's less transport involved and it's easier to get them to that marketplace. In the west, it's a lower price because of the transport and the “shrink” involved in getting them across the country.
On the capacity issue, if you had the capacity to process where you were and move meat as opposed to moving live animals, we would see a differentiation in the price paid to a western producer versus the price paid to an Ontario producer. It is what we have often argued in the price-versus-location argument.
I would argue that it's not always about the price. The price is driven by where the processors are. That's where they need sheep and that's where they pay for them to come to, but they have to come from somewhere, and there aren't enough in that jurisdiction to supply the demand that they have.
We can't process in Manitoba. We can't process in Saskatchewan. We can't process in B.C., New Brunswick, P.E.I. or Newfoundland and get those lambs and those sheep—not the live animals, but the meat—to any other province in the country.