Agriculture committee  Just to put things in perspective, we were running in the last year at about 65% of our capacity. Going along with what Brian is saying, if we could just get back to where we were before that, that would be a big thing too. We have that excess capacity right now available to us,

Agriculture committee  When things were on a level playing field, we were able to start importing cows from the U.S. We're right on the border of Vermont and New York State. So hopefully, yes, I'd love to build another plant and kill that much more and take some of the cows from the U.S.

Agriculture committee  Not really. I think that is one of the results. The SRM is a result of us going down to that 65% capacity. It's not that the animals were not there. It's that we needed that extra money to bring us up to speed. If you can't run your plant at capacity, the $31 would sure help brin

Agriculture committee  Could I just add something to the point? Pre-BSE, the Canadian industry—I don't know if we ever really touched on it, but I think it's a very important point to look at.... As a company, when we were on a level playing field, we were importing cows from the U.S. and processing,

Agriculture committee  No. I said “relatively speaking”, with our U.S. counterparts. I'm not saying that markets have not been re-opened, but what I say is, on a relative basis, compared with our U.S. counterparts, they have access to the same markets we do. It's not to say that we haven't re-opened ce

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Well, it's to integrate some of our operations.

Agriculture committee  Well, we definitely think that will help in making us more competitive on a relative basis.

Agriculture committee  Correct.

Agriculture committee  If I may, I will answer. On a relative basis—because we have to look at ourselves in comparison with the U.S., since that's really where we're seeing the major difference and where we're getting the competitive pressures—as far as we're concerned, we don't see anything that has