Mr. Chairman, the options are limited. We have the option of recommending to FMBS an increase in petroleum products, which could see a reduction in the deficit over a year or a number of years or like we've undertaken is we recommended to FMBS that we write off the $4.5 million deficit and start new. One of the problems we are experiencing, and this probably was expected, we don't have the same economies of scale we had before division. That's playing a major part in our ability to break even. We also have to keep in mind that this is an essential service and we have to keep the product affordable in the communities, otherwise we may have a serious problem.

Right now, there is no doubt that, even though we may have the same priced product this year as we had last year, obviously that's not going to be the case if the price of petroleum products keeps increasing. So it will probably be reflected in the summer barge product and in the winter road product next year. The only way to address that would have been to increase the cost to the communities to break even.

There is another aspect of this. The $4.5 million is applicable to all the communities that were on the system at the time of division, for instance. Since then there are some communities that are off the system. Therefore, other communities would be paying for something that may have been looked at as the deficit applicable to a different community. That's one of the reasons why we recommended to FMBS that we just write off the $4.5 million because it's money spent. Nobody really owes us this money, it's just money spent. The only way you can say somebody owes you is if we try to make it apply to all our customers. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.