Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This goes back again to a voluntary association.... It's interesting that when part 4 talks about the dissolution it talks about a period of five years. I know that this government has continually said that there's a transition period, and there are five years, so don't worry.
Well, it says here “within five years, or any shorter period specified by the Governor in Council”, so the five years isn't an exact piece. It's a maybe. There's no definitive “you get five years to figure this out”. If the Governor in Council decides it should be a shorter period, it'll be a shorter period. So it won't be five years.
So what we're saying here is that your obligations to the taxpayers are fulfilled; that's rightfully so. Mr. Meredith talked about the protection of taxpayers' money, so that's protected. The only entity that would be left after you took back the money owed to taxpayers--correctly so--would be the corporation in name, that's all, with no assets, just simply the Canadian Wheat Board. Really, all this amendment does is say to let them dissolve it if they choose to, because there isn't an entity there other than an incorporated name--