The number sounds quite large, but I'm not sure if we have a number.
You're correct, it is a pilot program, and there will be an advisory committee set up with stakeholders and academia and so on to consider and evaluate the program and see how effectively it helped address the low-income challenges of these farm families.
For the people who did not qualify, perhaps because their levels were below $50,000 for gross farm income, they still can access the other services. Quebec has services that are part of the agricultural policy framework in Quebec. The province actually delivers the farm business assessment service in Quebec, and there has been participation in that. Those services would be available.
It would be a policy decision down the road as to whether or not the $50,000 level was changed. The other thing to consider for farm families that.... There are people operating farms with less than $50,000. On average, there is rarely any positive income, so most of their income now would be coming from off-farm sources. With that size of operation, it's very difficult to make much in the way of net income.
But you're absolutely correct, these are things that would be considered, I'm sure, by an advisory committee. That's part of the commitment to the program, that this committee will be established to look at the results of the program and consider its future. That information would then be provided to the minister.