Agriculture committee  Roughly, we anticipate something like 60% will do the farm business assessment, and 40% the training.

Agriculture committee  I don't think that was ever the view. Again, with the challenges they face, the idea was always to provide every bit of service that we could provide with the program to help them in whatever way they wanted, either with their operation or off the farm.

Agriculture committee  Our view would be that the uptake isn't low. On the uptake, we're looking at almost 13,500 applications, as of November 5. We actually budgeted based around having about 19,000, at an average of $10,000 payments. So we're getting quite a good uptake on the program. Again, I thi

Agriculture committee  Our role is to report to the minister on the implementation of the program and the results that we've received so far. I'm in the program branch of the department, not the policy branch, so I couldn't address it any more than to say that.

Agriculture committee  Again, I think all we can do is provide those results, and the strategic policy people in the department will look at that and provide whatever advice and recommendations to the minister. I couldn't say what that may be at this point.

Agriculture committee  To the first question, the goal was to get the program out. To respond to that, we would have had to delay the program a year, which really wouldn't have helped the people who needed the help this year. Certainly next year when the program is available, everybody will be much mor

Agriculture committee  The $50,000 is an eligibility parameter. It's a policy decision we can't change. That's the parameter to use as we assess applicants coming to the program. However, there are a lot of other tools that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada works with directly or with the provinces to t

Agriculture committee  There isn't. But I would assume the corporation would benefit if they've applied to the programs that are available to help with income. The CAIS program and things you're going to be talking about next, I think, would apply. This program is looking at family income, so if they d

Agriculture committee  If the corporation doesn't qualify—

Agriculture committee  The family does, if they own 20% or more of the corporation.

Agriculture committee  It's certainly driven by government policies. Our role is to provide all the information, the best information we can, and make the situation as clear as we can, and then policy decisions will drive what the approach may be.

Agriculture committee  I think the problem we're trying to address—

Agriculture committee  —with this program is the low family income. Regardless of what else is going on, there are those families that are having this difficulty, and we're trying to address that problem and bring every tool we can to bear. As I mentioned, we've had people who have used these other ser

Agriculture committee  Certainly a number of tools are available, and the minister has committed to looking at things like disaster relief. The cover crop protection program came out this year. My colleague who's next, Danny Foster, can probably address this better than I can, but certainly those are t

Agriculture committee  I assume you're probably talking about the income payment money, what we'll do if we don't need the $190 million that will be available this year, although that remains to be seen because we're not at the deadline. It certainly would be up to the minister and the government to de