Consistent with the principles of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association regarding safety nets, we would basically be in favour of at least investigating the movement to a broad-based contributory-style program, particularly for the income stabilization tiers. I think CAIS, the targeted margin-based program, works reasonably well in the disaster tiers. But in our opinion, when that targeted margin-based approach is applied to income stabilization, it can be intrusive on business decision-making. It can provide a disincentive to producers for managing their own risk and using all tools available to manage their risk, and it rewards volatility.
We would see value in investigating the broad-based, non-targeted, contributory-style approach for the stabilization tiers in our safety net program.