Agriculture committee  I think it's somewhere around 20% to 22%.

Agriculture committee  I think one of the big areas of concern that Clare alluded to is foreign animal disease. That would be devastating for our industry. We're 60% export oriented, and basically, all your export markets would be cut off for an extended period of time. It would be England all over again.

Agriculture committee  I'll take a stab at it. I'm not totally conversant with exactly what our numbers would be. We have somewhere in the neighbourhood of about twenty-some percent ownership of our current hog systems, but it's not 100% in 22%, or whatever. It's 100% in some, parts in others, and then others where we're contract farming.

Agriculture committee  There is American pork coming into Canada. We have what we'll call free trade in pork going both ways, and the U.S. is a very big market for us in pork. We are a much larger exporter of pork to the U.S. than they are an exporter to Canada.

Agriculture committee  No, it would be much to our disadvantage, I think, to piss them off.

Agriculture committee  Yes. I think our ability to hire sufficient workers in the west because of the boom in Alberta due to oil has been an issue. We are paying competitive wages in the packing industry. We just can't pay oil wages in the packing industry. That's the dilemma.