Sorry. I knew this would happen.
I'll try to use an example. You're probably saying, well, what does all of this have to do with finance? I want to use the example of AgriStability. We have a situation in which the grain coming off this year is fusarium-infected. It's not high-quality grain. Some areas have it and some areas don't. Each grain company is going to operate independently and sell that grain. In some areas the farmers will get nothing for it. In the old system when you had the Canadian Wheat Board, it looked at the entire crop. It could blend out northwest Saskatchewan to southeast Manitoba. That isn't happening now. So what's going to happen is that the entire wheat crop is going to have reduced value. I'm going to take a hit. What does that matter to you? Well when Agri-Food Canada comes and says “hey, we need a few hundred million to fix up the AgriStability, because these farmers are claiming their losses” it's going to affect you directly.
I would like to close by saying that if it's an important economic issue that two fertilizer companies can join to remain viable, I would make the argument to you that Canadian prairie farmers should have the option of working through a collective system to sell their grain so that we can actually compete with other countries.
Thank you.