Thank you very much.
This pork cycle exists, but it is not nearly as predictable as it once was, primarily because we are more of a global industry. At one time, we really just had cycles that were related to grain price cycles, and they were contained in North America.
We are in a cyclical downturn, but it is not a result of a massive increase in production. Actually, the chart I referred to says that U.S. prices are what they were four or five years ago in nominal terms, but costs have increased so much due to the feed input side. So I would actually say we are underproducing, in the sense that if we had better access into China, a country that is short of pork right now—it's a political issue—but that has chosen not yet to open up to the world market....
Indeed, we are dealing with an extremely urgent situation—and thank you for raising it—for the survival of the industry. We have had meetings with each of the caucuses—and I'm guessing your colleague might be Wayne Easter, who has been talking about this situation very much as well. We are really looking at the next eight weeks, I guess, as being crucial for producers to be able to have a basis to answer to their financial creditors how they are going to meet the cash requirements of production. Indeed, we are looking at a repayable loan—with interest, we've suggested. We are looking at minimizing any issue of countervailing duties from the U.S. side. I know that people do wonder why we are worrying about that if we are worried about surviving, but for the long term countervail duties are miserable things to ever get rid of.