Supply management is truly, in my opinion, one of the pillars of economic stability in agriculture. The main reason for that is our ability to get our cost of production from the marketplace.
Supply management across the country is...a lot of rural benefits are truly being taken from and given to the income, and the ability for supply management to facilitate back and forth, buying in the community, participating in communities with regard to the spinoff effect, the ability that we put in, the opportunities for us to be involved in everything from sending our children to the rinks to being involved on boards and everything.
The strength of our industry, because of supply management and the ability to get the income from the marketplace, really affords us a lot of opportunities in being stable. If you look at so much of other agriculture today, whether it's the pork industry or perhaps the beef industry, they are very much disadvantaged relative to the opportunities we have.
We, as a supply management industry, do not come to government looking for a subsidy, and so on. We don't come for that type of assistance. So that's a significant factor for us and government.