Definitely, one of the key principles in the design of the program is the trade issue, minimizing the risk of countervail for our programming, because clearly making payments just to have that clawed back—I'll use that term—by countervailing duties is not going to get us anywhere because of the size of our agricultural export industry. That continues to be one of the key principles in terms of designing new programming.
As far as disaster relief goes, and disaster programming, basically we've looked at all the disasters that have taken place in the country over the last 10 to 15 years at least, and we did the analysis of those and asked, where are the gaps with our existing programming and what do we need to do to better respond to disasters? We came up with a framework. It's a framework; it's not a program. It's not prescriptive in terms of saying that if you declare a disaster, producers are going to get $1,000 an acre. You have to design the program on a case-by-case basis so it's event specific.
The industry groups have been very supportive of this framework approach. What they've said to us is that they agree with the framework, they agree with the guidelines, they agree with the principles that we've come up with, but we're going to need to be clearer on what the process is, what actually happens--steps one, two, and three--so that we can put the disaster response in as quickly as possible. That's something we'll have to do if ministers agree next week in terms of the disaster framework.
So in terms of disaster relief, we looked at what has happened over the last number of years and asked, what would be the best possible response mechanism to those types of things?
We've certainly looked at the U.S. style of programming. There's lots of money there going to five commodities, but there are lots of downfalls on that. Do you want to be paying producers who are no longer producers? It's simply because they own the land that they're getting assistance payments. So there are those types of things, and we do look at other country models as well, on all types of programming, not just disaster relief.