Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. I'll let the others speak to this, but it varies across the country. Where Mr. Fuller and I reside, we are co-op-based. It's the model we work under. There was in the past a private company there that has since exited the industry. Ontario is much more diverse.

Agriculture committee  I want the people sitting at this table to be clear that all of our respective agencies--I won't speak for them--and other commodities in Canada have these programs in place. I think there's that inherent belief that Canada's food is safe. And that is continuing. We saw with the avian influenza in 2004 that there was no change in consumption.

Agriculture committee  None that we're aware of.

Agriculture committee  To follow up on what Jacques said, I think the working relationship we have with the department and the minister has greatly improved. We're in an international forum now, and we're getting down to the crunch on some of these talks. I think Jacques touched on it when he said this is our sensitive product.

Agriculture committee  We're a very small industry. We've seen a slight increase. It's right around the 550 to 560 mark. It has been very steady.