Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, lady and gentlemen, for your presentation.
And thank you to my colleagues. I'm going to have to miss the last hour of the session here today, but I can tell all the presenters that I will be reading the Hansard to see your comments. I appreciate your coming here.
I think my colleagues around the table here would agree that across the country we've heard a certain amount of consistency on some areas, and certainly, I think, on some new areas. Maybe even some new questions came in.
Geri, you touched on one of them: support for regional companion programs. That seems to be fairly consistent right from coast to coast, and I think it's something we have to look at.
Another one is truth in labelling. It's come up here today. But the one thing, Geri--and I'd like you to maybe speak to this a little bit--is that we don't have 100% agreement on country-of-origin truth in labelling--that's my term for it. I put the two together. Not all the commodity groups support that, so I'd like to hear a little bit on how we deal with that.
Another thing is that you talked about third party program delivery. I know what you mean there, but for the record, Geri, I'd like you to explain it so that somebody else reading this report months from now can know exactly what you mean by that.
I'm going to throw two other questions out, and one is for Vince. Vince, on that scrapies program that you talked about, could you give, if you have it, the cost of what a total monitoring program would cost right across the country, not just for Ontario?
To Mr. Smith, we've heard across the country in different places about a national crop insurance program, and I wonder what your comments would be. Would that address some of the problems in your industry, and maybe all of them in general?
So Geri will start.