Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks for appearing today.
One of the things we heard from a number of the different delegates who came through the first part of the phase of the study we had is the issue of speculation—that of efficiency—in the sense that some world events out there, which caused the market to increase, didn't actually come to fruition. It's done out of fear and a series of different tactics. It's a great inefficiency for manufacturers because it's another cost in the system that's not even real.
Are there any suggestions or is there a position you have on that speculation? Personally, I find that it's completely inefficient. How do we deal with that?
For example, the plastics industry gets whacked pretty hard when stories drive the price of the commodity up on the market. Maybe it's good for people in Chicago, New York, and Toronto, but it's not good for small and medium-sized manufacturing plants that are trying to deal with it on a regular basis.