If you go to the FAO Food Outlook report, they give the status of grain carry-overs from 2006 to 2008. You'll see there was a 10.9% increase in other uses of coarse grains, and that was primarily ethanol. The world's farmers had a good crop year in 2008. The problem was that we had a major change in industrial use, and that brought down the world's stocks.
Although Canada is not a very big player in the global grain industry as far as coarse grains, it has a role because it imports corn from the U.S. The farmers of the world were basically delighted with the program, because it really strengthened them and they had been living in a state of penury. But we really need to be cautious about how far we go with these mandates.