I could give them. It has taken $246 million out of low farm income pockets.
In any event, I move that the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food recommend that the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food immediately rescind the changes announced to the Canadian family farm options program on April 20, 2007, and restore the provisions of the program as originally announced.
This reinstating of the program would ensure the thousands of farmers who on the basis of sound financial planning and on the advice of financial advisers had made provisions to utilize the program for the financial year 2006. Those farmers have been prohibited from that utilization as a direct result of the Minister of Agriculture's arbitrary and unexpected alteration of the rules concerning the right of producers to apply for the program.
And I move that this motion be made a report to the House, Mr. Chair.