The impact has been incredible in terms of that. In the brief here, as you will probably see, we said how much is left, even in western Canada, because of when they closed down the Canadian Wheat Board.
The Canadian Wheat Board had an incredible history in the west, with western producers being able to establish it. It took an awful lot of work and effort over the years to do it and maintain it. They had an elected advisory board all across the country of farmers who were advising the wheat board in terms of how it operated. It had an incredible advantage. The farmers got the returns from the world market, and Canada was doing really well on it. We had high-quality grains, and we were able to ship them to many places. Our whole stability was from that.
The industry got their share of it, and the remainder then went back to producers. Now all this has changed. All those facilities the producers were involved in have now been sold off—we don't even know for what price—to concerns from Saudi Arabia and other places. Our Canadian producers' earnings have been drastically reduced.
It has had an incredible impact on the west and what's happening there, even in terms of closing down some of the shipping we used to have and how the thing used to be well organized. The impact is incredible.
We're hoping we can move back in some of those directions again to revive our rural areas, to be able to have some stability there, and to build on our environment. Our environment can't take that type of pressure. It's not just the farmers involved. It's also the health of the environment, of our communities, and of consumers too.