Let me interject for a moment while Jim collects his thoughts.
Eighty per cent of the imports of apples into Canada come from Washington State, which produces almost as many apples as the rest of North America put together. They're a huge apple-producing machine. When they blow the price out or sell to the three major grocery retailers in eastern Canada and give them huge incentives to advertise Washington State fruit, it's something that makes it very difficult for us to compete against.
When it comes to the service industry—the suppliers of restaurants, small bodegas, and smaller grocery stores—almost all of those apples come from Washington State. Why? Because for whatever reason, they're able to move huge volumes at discounted prices. Their growers are in a similar situation to ours. Washington State doesn't do that to the northeastern states, which also produce apples. They have a hands-off policy there, but export is very important in Washington State.
Two years ago, there was serious dumping of the 2004 crop with depressed prices into Canada, and that hurt us dramatically.
When it comes to government, I don't think it would hurt at all to have a strong recommendation made that whoever in government is involved in the procurement of food, for the military, prisons, hospitals, and so on, try to purchase Canadian product when they can. I think that would go a long way, because those service industries don't carry both U.S. and Canadian; they carry the U.S. 90% of the time.
The service industry has gotten much bigger over the last ten years. People are too busy to go to the grocery store and buy their food. They depend on the service industry more.