Yes. I wouldn't be very good at articulating probably exactly how it would work, but I know the idea has been floated. I'm involved in the provincial Federation of Agriculture, and I know the idea has been floated. We had a three-year or four-year process that ended this past year. It was originated by Kelco Consulting in Kentville, a study that looked at how to get a reasonable rate of return back to primary production. The idea that it was originally based on was some kind of a levy at the retail level. I think it started with pork and maybe some involvement in beef and apples.
It was only going to be a matter of a few cents on the retail price that would have meant a large sum of money that could have been returned to primary producers. Of course, whenever you talk about levy, tax, or whatever, it gets bogged down at the higher levels, political levels, because it is very unpopular, obviously, to raise any taxes.
The flip side of that was this idea of some kind of a rebate to retailers, so for every pound or kilogram of product that they had on their store shelves and that they sold, the provincial government--again I'm more familiar with provincial politics than federal--there'd be some sort of a rebate of the tax back to the retailer to make it more encouraging for them to do it. At the same time, the economic activity within the province in rural Nova Scotia, in terms of more food production and more local produce being sold, would generate, hopefully, an equal or greater amount of tax revenue for the province so that it would be more palatable than the food levy type of system the discussion started out with.
Either way, whatever the system turned out to be, I think ultimately it's very important to get more money back to primary producers.