Yes. It has been difficult to get help this past year to producers who have been dealing with the nematode and have been threatened with bankruptcy. The current program involves mandatory reporting. That is a great thing and it came up when we had the BSE problem. It is certainly a good idea to confine the problem to the affected region, so that it does not spread to all of Canada. For that to happen, however, we need programs that provide adequate compensation to producers who may be marginalized and blamed, and the assistance needs to be targeted. The government had a good understanding of the problem we were dealing with last year. Producers had to be assisted and supported. In some case, the CAIS program seemed to be effective, but in other cases producers received only 60% compensation, which makes no sense.
When we had the hog crisis in Quebec, there were pre-defined mortality rates under the programs. But in a crisis situation, when there is disease or an epidemic, the program does not apply. Extra funding is needed to deal with those situations. Other programs need to be created to deal on an ad hoc basis with specific situations and specific needs.
The same thing can be done for grain producers. That type of program used to exist outside the income security mechanisms, and it applied in disaster situations to meet specific needs.