Economists right through the wheat board's history have come up with this figure that over the 30, 40, 50 years, in addition to these four years that I have just talked about, western Canadian farmers have lost on average about a dollar a bushel on all the grain they have sold over those years, and of course we cannot get it.
Des économistes ont dit que, tout au long de l'histoire de la commission, c'est-à-dire sur 30, 40, 50 ans, en plus des quatre années dont je viens de parler, les agriculteurs canadiens ont perdu en moyenne un dollar le boisseau sur tout le grain vendu pendant toutes ces années.