Mr. Chair, the member really is off the topic, because as we told him a number of times yesterday, this deals with the provisions of the program as originally announced. The ideas he's talking about are wonderful ideas and we'd love to see the government come forward with moneys in those areas. However, this was a program that low-income farmers had planned on. They had planned on it. Their tax advisors advised them how to utilize it. He is off the topic in talking about farm purchases and so on. That's not what this program was designed for. It was designed to put over $18,000 into the pockets of farm families who met low-income criteria. Thousands met those low-income criteria. The government retroactively stopped the program, which threw everybody into a lurch.
If he's going to propose plans that he thinks we could support, then tell us how those plans are specifically going to target the low-income families who would have benefited from this particular program, now that they knew what it was going to do. The critique we outlined last year was because the program was after the fact and it was at the end of the tax year. The tax year was long over. They couldn't meet the criteria at that time.