Thank you, witnesses from both provinces, for coming. You've made the point pretty aggressively that under the current scenario there's no question we're losing the livestock industry—hogs and beef—in Atlantic Canada, and the government has to find some way of redressing that.
I'd also agree with the point the P.E.I. group made. I know our office, Mr. Chair—I don't know about yours—is having a lot of complaints about Farm Credit, that it's easier to deal with the chartered banks in terms of the farm financial cases than it is with Farm Credit. That's not the way it should be.
In the P.E.I. presentation, you said one of the solutions here—and I may not have this quite right—is to release the livestock that was assigned as security for 2008 and therefore allow producers to receive advances on the livestock for the 2009 production year. I assume you're talking about the assignment to the federal government under the advance program?