I agree with those comments. I think my response is really the same to both that question and the previous question.
In my mind, there has been too much unilateral action by the federal government and not enough cooperation, whether it's the provincial ministers of agriculture or the farm organizations involved. When you only have one person or a small group of people making decisions to fit the whole country, it's not going to be effective and it's not going to be timely.
If there is one criticism I have of this system, it wouldn't necessarily be to cut out the provincial ministers of agriculture. It would be to persuade the federal government to act in a more cooperative fashion with everybody involved.
In 2001 we had the Liberal administration announcing APF. I believe the announcement was made through a press release, and the first most people saw of it was in the newspapers. It's not a very good way to start generating farm programs that you hope are going to work for farmers across the country.