Agriculture committee  Yes. Thank you. I'm more than happy to clear up some of the numbers. I wasn't referring to government support as $30 million. I was saying that the producers are looking at a price tag of $30 million for their model of transition. What we would end up providing to producers, sh

Agriculture committee  Well, I don't want to speak for them, but I could say in all honestly that there's been a great deal of dissatisfaction with that offer.

Agriculture committee  Well, this is what our federal and provincial governments have agreed to.

Agriculture committee  Again, at the risk of speaking for them, I think there's one issue that has created quite a gap between our perspectives on it--the perspective of government versus industry. Our model is a three-year model for transition, and I think the industry was more interested in a 10-year

Agriculture committee  That's for me, I think. Thank you for the question. Let me clarify one small piece that's important. The total compensation that would be on the table, if the $5 million were accepted, would be about $600,000, plus or minus a bit, per producer. The $5 million has not been agree

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I appreciate the opportunity to be here today. I'll keep my remarks short. My name is Greg Meredith and I am the assistant deputy minister of the farm financial programs at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Today I wanted to