That's a good question, and it's one that we certainly felt we had to address right up front.
Early on when we were looking at our project, we hired a consultant who is maybe.... I would consider him the best in Canada, to be frank. We brought him on to look at the feedstocks and what this was going to mean for canola. How much is being produced? What do we have?
I'll just back up a little bit. If you look at what's being produced, you'll see that there were four million tonnes of canola oil crushed in 2019 out of the 10 million tonnes of seed that was crushed domestically. There was about 20 million or 19.5 million tonnes of seed produced in Canada.
The thing that you have to realize is that crushers have been at maximum capacity for the last three years, and they've been sitting there waiting. They've had the opportunity to expand. They've had the seed there to expand, so why weren't they expanding? The reason was that the edible market is only so big and, to be frank, it wasn't demanding enough to signify that they should expand.
Why did we see these three crushers come out just recently with these news releases? If you look at the chain of events, you'll see that Tidewater Midstream, True North Renewable Fuels and Covenant Energy came out with news releases that we were going to get into the renewable fuels production, looking at canola oil as a feedstock. Within one week, Richardson made its announcement. A week behind that—