Agriculture committee  We are the only administrator that administers the advance payments program in each province. There are 50-plus administrators across Canada that do this, but we are the only ones in every province today.

Agriculture committee  I talked about the way that corporations—for example, under the advance payments program—provide guarantees through farm organizations that have become corporations, or registered partnerships, or limited liability companies. Certainly, with Bill C-18, it does allow a more refle

Agriculture committee  I think one of the things that will make it more efficient is exactly what you've just said, where you can administer the program for a number of different commodities. At ACC, for example, we administer for different commodities in each province. It seems sometimes a duplicatio

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Zimmer. I believe the act certainly allows us better clarification of some of the things that in administering the program today we find very difficult, things like better and clearer definitions around attribution rules, and for those who are not familiar with it

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, thank you very much for the opportunity to sit in front of this committee today and to share some of our thoughts in regard to Bill C-18. My name is Jaye Atkins. I am the chief executive officer of Agricultural Credit Corporation, a not-fo