Actually, Mr. Chair, I don't think that's impossible to do. Perhaps at our next meeting I can bring that back. I'd be glad to run through that for the member. We can certainly deliver that to the schedule. Hopefully we'll get an opportunity to do that still.
I'd just like to point out as well that in our election campaign we talked about replacing CAIS. We're well on to doing that. We also talked about putting in place a new disaster assistance plan. That's an important component the minister is working on right now with the provincial agriculture ministers. It's coming along. There's a first ministers meeting here a little bit later. We'll talk more about the disaster assistance plan later, but I just want to assure the committee that that is moving along and the minister is taking that up as one of his main priorities.
Of course we also moved on our commitment to bring marketing choice to western Canadian grain farmers. That's coming into place, to some degree--not as much as most farmers in western Canada would want--on August 1 of this year.
Of that $1.5 billion, we moved it through the system in a number of different ways.
I'm not sure if Mr. Easter wants to say something. I know he's enthralled by what I'm saying here.
The $900 million of that $1.5 billion is going to be run through a retroactive change to the CAIS inventory evaluation method. That is something, Mr. Chairman, that was requested by agriculture, by industry. They came to the government and asked for the change in the inventory evaluation and it was something that we finally felt we needed to do. The previous government had a number of years to do that. It took them an extremely long time to make any changes at all. We were able to make that, and that resulted in a lot more money going out to farmers in 2006. Of course, we're working through that at this time.
As I said, it was a development that was asked for by industry. We also put $50 million in additional money through expanded criteria for negative margin coverage. That's another issue that was—