If I may, I'm actually going to go back to one of the recommendations that we talked about. It was the tax implication, but I want to extend it more broadly. It was in relation to private versus public treatment in terms of taxation. Here, cooperatives fit nicely in that category called “other”—neither here nor there, with a lot of ambiguities, etc.
To your question, as I understood it, of the government opting out from supporting cooperatives, I would actually come right back and say that this would, in my view, be very much the same as the federal government saying that it wished to opt out of creating an environment to stimulate growth and development, or growth and development in rural communities. I would almost make those two statements in parallel.
Again, I certainly would have significant difficulty with that.