—but I wanted to direct questions to the wonderful witnesses we have here.
I'm very curious. From the cattle producers' expertise, it seems to me that we have a structural issue that makes the industry extraordinarily vulnerable when one plant closes down. I remember the XL beef incident in 2012. To have only three plants for all the cattle.... I really feel for people who are producing the pigs and cattle. I'm wondering if there's a long-term solution.
I'll give a small background. In Saanich—Gulf Islands, we did a ton of fundraising when the provincial regs changed so that we could build an abattoir on Salt Spring Island and the lamb slaughter could continue locally and not be more centralized. Is it worth considering as a long-term response to these kinds of issues that the abattoirs and production facilities be potentially more decentralized?
It may be a naive question. As I said, my only background on this was fundraising for the abattoir on Salt Spring, but I'd be very interested in your perspective.