Let me start with the first question and the CGC.
I'm a little shocked you feel there's little resemblance with what we heard in this committee, and from the producers and so on. If you could point to some examples where you think we've deviated from exactly what the majority of producers or majority of people were asking for, I'd be happy to address them or take a look at them.
As I said, the bill will come before this committee, and if there are amendments that come forward, so be it. We'll try to get the bill to you as quickly as we can.
I certainly don't think we're off the mark. Other than for one farm group, I haven't had anyone with any amount of negativity about this, other than for their saying hurry up and get it done. So I'd be happy to take your examples and work with them.
On the disaster situation and the two instances you talked about, we are addressing some of that in southwest Saskatchewan, working with the new Saskatchewan provincial government in partnership. As you know, all of those programs are a 60-40 split, and we try to work in conjunction with them, if at all possible.
There have been a few instances—the plum pox virus comes to mind—where we actually went ahead at the federal level, because the province wasn't coming on board. That program was offered to a couple of different provinces. Some provinces came on board and some didn't. And we went ahead and announced.
The only thing stopping us is that we're in the final negotiations on Growing Forward and the final suite of programming, getting down to the details on such things as, if a disaster expands, does the federal government's level go up, and to what extent? So we're a little bit apprehensive about stomping on toes when we're into those final negotiations.
I would hope that your provincial colleagues would come to the table. We're more than ready to be there, but I don't want to bruise any egos in these final days of negotiations on the overall program.