David Anderson at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.

October 17th, 2006 / 12:55 p.m.

Conservative

David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK

Thank you.

I want to move to a couple of comments that Mr. Friesen made.

I'm just wondering, have you done a costing of your proposals here? You say that you want most of CAIS and you want a NISA component added on top of it. You expect the companion programs can be thrown in there, and CAIS would cover disaster relief. You say that all of that “might not” cost more. I notice even your suggestion on the NISA could cost anywhere from $30 million to $130 million. But then you also talk about addressing declining margins on grains and oilseeds.

Have you costed out your proposals, what the total figure would be?

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