On self-directed risk management, this is something that was in place. This is an alternative to production insurance for edible horticulture. It was developed in the 1990s, because in most cases, especially in the fresh market, production insurance does not work for our crops.
Self-directed risk management was an add-on to NISA. It was extremely popular and worked very well.
When APF-1 was introduced, the then minister, Lyle Vanclief, promised that production insurance would be made available to all farmers in Canada—and we have this in writing—and further, that if appropriate production insurance products could not be developed, then the federal government would consider self-directed risk management or a like product.
Time passed, and no new suitable products have been developed. We look forward to the introduction—reintroduction, really—of a self-directed risk management program under APF-2. This is a program that works, as opposed to one that doesn't. This would provide equity among producers, because for the most part horticulture does not have a working production insurance system like most others do. It would not cost any more than production insurance. It would be much less expensive to administer and easier to budget. Growers like it. It would be simpler and predictable. We would really encourage a reintroduction of this tool.