Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  That's a question we weren't thinking about either. This year alone we put up a new facility. We doubled our size. We spent $4 million on a new building. We spent $2 million on new equipment to package our cucumbers. It's all done robotically now, so it's a pretty neat piece of

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  The way the cooperative runs, of course, we don't have a whole lot of reserve in the co-op. The banks fund it. We just get loans for it, and it's paid for with every packaged product that goes through there.

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Our product goes a lot further than locally. We're into Saskatchewan, Manitoba. We go into British Columbia also, but not as much, because they have their own cooperatives and greenhouses there. But it goes all over western Canada. With that type of product and that volume, the o

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Right now, with the traceability, if I pick a cucumber out of my greenhouse and it goes to Manitoba, they can link it right back to my greenhouse. That's how far the traceability has gone. We needed to do that for the stores and for all our customers, but it's come at a huge cost

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Yes, good morning.

Special Committee on Cooperatives committee  Thank you. Good morning, panel. I'll give you some history of the Red Hat Co-operative. It will give you some idea of what we're about. The Red Hat Co-operative grades, packages, distributes, and markets greenhouse-grown vegetables for grower members. At present, Red Hat Co-ope