Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
First and foremost, the CWB will be marketing organic grain, but I want to preface my views like this. I'm not an ideologue. I try to live in what the market realities are. Today the market realities are that if you're not a big fish you generally get smothered. Even some of the details that Mr. Anderson has outlined are already history. As a matter of fact, a lot of those small plants are congregating into big ones, and foreign ownership, and a whole lot of other things.
So the simple reality is you need to have an organization, in my judgment, that clearly has farmers' interests at the core of its essence, and that's what the CWB is. It tries to ensure that farmers get a fair shake in the world market for commodities we produce that are in huge surplus in this country. We're not even talking about a scenario similar to that in the U.S. The U.S. produces about twice as much wheat as it needs. We produce eight times as much as we need. We produce six times as much malting barley and fifteen times as much durum wheat as we need for pasta in this country. So we're a huge producer with respect to our population. Surely, one organization that stands up for farmers in a commercial sense is essential.