This is a personal opinion. We've heard the term “entitlement program”. If someone is farming, in Ontario anyway, they get 75% rebate on their property taxes because we know that farming isn't a very profitable thing and is facing many challenges. The NISA program was a good program in the sense that it allowed producers to gain equity and draw on that equity when times were tough. I personally wouldn't be farming right now if I hadn't been able to build up some equity somehow, because of what happened in 1999 and 2002 and so on.
We got paid less for our apples last year and the year before than we had in 25 years. Because of the dumping of Washington State apples, it took us in Ontario a year longer to recover from that, but that's a whole other story.