Thank you very much.
As I was saying, members of the committee are well aware of the issue since we've recently heard representatives of the people who are affected in Saint-Amable.
With this motion, I'm asking the committee to recommend to the government that it consider setting up a special financial help program for those persons since they are not eligible to other types of programs.
I know that there's a press conference going on at at this time. The president of UPA, Mr. Laurent Pellerin, is talking about the problem and is asking the government to provide special help to the potato producers and horticulturists of Saint-Amable.
That's the objective of my motion. We're asking the government to get involved immediately by setting up a financial help program specifically for those producers.
I may add that this is similar to what we did when the Quebec tobacco producers couldn't produce any more, for various reasons. Obviously, we all know that tobacco is not in great demand today and we wanted governments to look at how they could help those producers change crops.
We might consider the same thing for the Saint-Amable potato producers who, quite probably, won't be able to continue this type of production in the future because of what has happened.
Through you, Mr. Chairman, the committee could submit this report to the House.