Yes, I'd like to comment on that. To me the difference is the American system is proactive: they plan how they're going to support their farmers years in advance. The Canadian program has been reactive: we hope we don't have to support our farmers. Over the past number of years, it's always been that we've had to, so farmers don't know here. In the U.S., farmers know and they willingly plan to spend billions of dollars every year for the next five years, as long as their farm bill goes out. We budget year by year and we hope we don't have to spend anything next year on agricultural injury--that's the difference.
On March 27th, 2007. See this statement in context.