Yes, I just have a question that you can rule out of order, if you like, Mr. Chair. I'm just not sure where to put this in. My question is really to the witnesses.
The crop year ends on July 31. The current board, with its elected and appointed directors, has been operating during this crop year. The act, on the other hand, is firing those directors in mid-term, likely as soon as this act gets royal assent. Therefore, three-quarters or halfway through the year, the board of elected directors as it currently exists is gone, yet the numbers for the year on their success or non-success will come out sometime in the future.
Are there any implications or liability or whatever for those current directors after they're fired because of what happens during the rest of the crop year when the five that remain will still be in place?
This seems atrocious to me. If the government was being fair instead of ideological, I think they would leave the current board in place until the end of the crop year and let it finish its work in good faith. But that's not what is happening. Are there any implications for the current elected farmer-directors when they're fired and the rest of the crop year remains?