What I am hearing here in British Columbia, I have heard everywhere we have been. In Quebec, I am in constant contact with agricultural producers. This is exactly what they say.
Grain producers have proposed the idea of a genuine AgriFlex program. When the current government launched the AgriFlex program just before the 2008 budget, it decided to invest $500 million. If it had been a real AgriFlex program, it could perhaps have made up for the fact that AgriStability did not cover production costs. But this program was not the one that had been initially proposed by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, because it did not include risk management. The grain producers' request was for a program to support provincial programs.
I do not know whether British Columbia has provincial stabilization programs of that kind. In Quebec, we have the ASRA, the Farm Income Stabilization Insurance program. In Ontario, they have the production insurance program. A genuine AgriFlex program would support and complement provincial programs in order to meet specific needs.
We do not have that at the moment. I do not know whether British Columbia has provincial stabilization programs of that kind. If not, should there be one? I know that it is not the role of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food to tell British Columbia what to do. Do you have programs like that?