Mr. Atamanenko, I'm confused by the question--or the answer. Until April of this year we worked under CAIS, a flawed program, quite honestly, which took away all those things you talked about. The agriculture policy framework of that...quite honestly, the Liberals negotiated away that flexibility that Canada once had. So when you get to the Doha rounds and the WTO, those conditions you talk about are not there.
But what we did is exactly what you have said. We brought in our business risk management. In fact, we worked with the provinces at the top to get AgriInvest in. We only agreed to bring in 1.5% of eligible net sales, but that's a component shared between the provinces, the federal government, and the producer. It sits there, and it's used for those times, actually, when the markets drop beyond, and they can trigger it to bring money out.
Then we brought in AgriStability. We refined what CAIS wasn't. It only started again this year. Why? Because the old CAIS program was not flexible in change. AgriStability has flexibility, to change things within it. In fact there are discussions about the triggering and how we can maybe make it more accessible in terms of triggering the funds.
Then we brought in AgriInsurance, AgriRecovery. You talked about those things. Those are actually the things that we've done, Alex, to try to accommodate those issues you raised by farmers.
On top of that, Mr. Easter talks about the $900 million. Well, actually, what we did is we put $600 million one time into the AgriInvest kick-start. That $600 million, thankfully, is there, and it started the program. For the other part of it, as I mentioned, thankfully, the price of grains has increased. So obviously as grain prices have increased, then some of the dollars that would be going out to AgriStability are not.
Quite honestly, we always hate to hear about disasters. There are some, but you know it's hard to budget in an agri-recovery program how much we're going to have for disasters. We've been fortunate. We've had some, and we had some money in for those, but not all of it was drawn.
Mr. Chair, I think we should get to the vote. I don't know if there are other....