I want to direct my questions to Martin.
You've been kind of an easy ride here this morning, and I think you've got some things you want to say to us.
The BSE issue probably demanded more time than any single issue in my 14 years around this table. We've given a lot of time to that issue. This committee and the government tried to respond. I'm wondering what lessons the beef industry learned from that experience. That's one of the questions.
We're talking about the disaster component to the APF as we move forward. How can that be delivered in a meaningful way so that we don't make some of the mistakes we made in the delivery of the previous programs? As you understand, we know now, because there is a report indicating that the profiteering that took place on the part of the packers was enormous.
This committee undertook to go after the packers. At least there were three parties that felt very strongly about that. One party didn't feel so strongly about it. But we did finally procure a report that gave us a pretty good indication of what went on, and it was less than complimentary to the beef industry. And certainly Canadians paid for that.
I'm wondering what we have learned, moving forward and as we prepare a disaster component as it would relate to the beef industry.