Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for welcoming us here today. It's great to be here.
I want to come back to this crop insurance. I've always been a producer and thought that production or crop insurance is a good way for the government to support agriculture because it gives them stability. If the programs run properly people really have an idea of what they can protect themselves from and towards.
I've talked to people in the past who have come up with some different ideas about how to make it stronger. Have any of your organizations considered talking about an interprovincial crop insurance program that would make it bigger and would then give it more stability and more financial viability?
To extend that further, we've also had people who have asked if we should be looking at doing something with private companies or extending it even beyond the borders of our country so that there's a big enough coverage area here that we have greater protection.