We are all businessmen here. I attended a working group meeting. We had a decision to make: open 95% of the Quebec border because we were losing millions of dollars a day. I was the good old’ boy in the room. I basically had to agree and say that it was a logical business decision. Only 5% would be left over. I would have liked for there to be an agreement in place before opening the border, because we all know how many millions of dollars are exported from Quebec to the US every day.
What difference can a day make for the government? It could have put in place a program to allocate $50,000 per farm the next day, and set up an emergency plan afterward. But that isn’t what happened: Saint-Amable was closed, we sacrificed it to the Americans and voilà!
What have we been told? Nothing to this point. But don’t forget that it was thanks to Saint-Amable that the rest of the Quebec border was reopened. It wasn’t thanks to the nematodes, we certainly never wanted any. All I know is that we have payments to make. The solution, is for us to be allocated money, and fast.