We have seen with the growth of the canola industry, soy bean industry, and corn industry that Manitoba is rich with a diverse range of agricultural products. However, the biggest one I would point to in Manitoba was seeing facilities like Can-Oat pop up in Portage, following the removal of oats from the board in the late 1980s under my good friend, Charlie Mayer, and hire 120 to 130 people and process some half a million tonnes of oats a year. We have actually seen wheat, durum, and barley acres in Manitoba shrink to the point where they may contribute 10% of the Wheat Board pot, and we've seen a huge growth in oat acres and acres of other crops, because farmers can then turn to them and get cashflow from them.
Any farmer who is concerned about their marketing expertise has only to look at the other side of their farm where they do their marketing of their canola, or their livestock, for that matter—and we know they can do it. We should look at the growth of value-added investment and so on, as I outlined in my opening comments and others have talked about, going forward with the removal of the single desk. We certainly have other examples of how the removal of oats has done a tremendous job for Manitoba. We look forward to more of those types of situations happening.