Okay, great. Thank you.
I've got a question for the NFU as well. I have a little difficulty with one of the positions that you seem to have put forward, and it's in the interest of modern-day business and a global marketplace in mind. There was a report that we reviewed here that you put out, and there was a comment made there about concern over overdependence on export markets. I think it's very clear, and Mr. Shipley alluded to this earlier. I don't think all the products that can be derived from our livestock are necessarily all marketable in our own country. For example, I enjoy nothing better than sitting down to a nice Alberta beef steak, but I wouldn't necessarily be so receptive to a plate of beef tongue or offals. That's just my personal preference and my taste. Yet there are markets that we know of, and there are some pretty large and lucrative markets where those same kinds of products are considered delicacies, and they're willing to pay a good price for them.
It seems to me that your position is almost that the farmers should forego those additional opportunities to get extra value from their products, so they don't become overdependent on these markets.
I know we can make a profit from these markets, and you're saying that you believe that as well. But you're saying that we should just simply pass those opportunities up because something could harm our ability to make a profit, that we don't want to sell the product to someone even though we know they're willing to pay a premium and even though we know it could help our farmers.
Maybe you could explain this concern about overdependency in foreign markets, even though we can clearly see that there's an opportunity there for added value for our farmers on these products.
Can you explain that for me a bit?