In 2004, on December 2, 151 cow-calf farmers on Prince Edward Island received $530,148, and every cent of that had to be repaid. The CAIS program stabbed the cow-calf operators in the back.
I think we need immediate debt relief for the Prince Edward Island farmers, an immediate cash-out for Prince Edward Island farmers; supply management has to be protected at all costs; agriculture should be taken out of the world trade talks; and there has to be a law passed in Canada stating that food processors cannot be food producers.
Also, I'd like to see work started on building a biodiesel plant here on the island to squeeze the oil out of soybeans, or whatever kind of beans there are, and to take fat from the hog plant and beef plant and use it to burn SRM, specified risk material, so they can generate electricity, or whatever they want to do with it.
Also, because of the way the CAIS program is so frigged up, I want it scrapped.