I think if you look at current trade agreements internationally, and WTO particularly, it's defined quite clearly there. It says that if your production is less than 70% of your normal production, you would then qualify for disaster relief. The problem is that it's only designed right now for production, so in natural disasters, when you may have massive reductions in income, if your production doesn't go down, it doesn't qualify. So that needs to be clarified. Our understanding is that in this round of negotiations, that's going to be talked about. I think other countries have learned that lesson.
I think one of the things we found with BSE, because we never got to the stage of declaring it a disaster, was that you try to tie us to these other programs. So then we get into this problem of whether it is margin or isn't margin. So really, we just delay it. Lots of people got payments, and they were clawed back, and that caused a lot of animosity.
There are a few things that need to happen. Define what a disaster is. I think that's relatively easy. Define the cost sharing, which is a huge issue we fought with, and many of you in this room know that very well. What is going to be the federal-provincial cost sharing when those are declared? That's what stopped a lot of these declarations from being made.
Lastly, we need to have those payments independent of other income support programs, or else you give it away with one hand and claw it all back with the other.