Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank you folks for coming. These were interesting presentations.
It's been an interesting set of hearings right across the country, from coast to coast, actually, and the common theme everywhere is that without profitability young people will not come into the industry. Secondary to that, there are a lot of current safety nets, current programs, that are not working in this country, which is far different from what we're hearing from the minister.
Mr. Chair, if I could come to one issue that, as Mr. Fox said, has been an issue for 15 years, it's Rocky Mountain National Park and TB. I'm sure Pierre must get a lot of calls on it. I know I do, and I have been for years.
I'm just suggesting, Mr. Chair, that part of the problem there is not just Agriculture Canada. In fact, I think Agriculture Canada is a small player in that. It really is Parks Canada and their involvement. It's just to suggest to the chair that maybe we need to call both departments in together--and if there are any others--and ask them to look at that issue. Call in a person in from Winnipeg, because I don't know how cattle farmers in that area survive at all. They're spending all their time with frustration.
Anyway, that's just a suggestion that maybe we could talk more about later, Jay.
Travis, on the SRM, specified risk materials removal, I think all the cattle people have mentioned that being still a serious issue. Where are we at with the money the minister announced on that issue? I think we tried last October, in a motion from André, to get money out to producers based on an all-industry proposal that came forward, and we weren't successful.
Where is that money at now? Has it been paid out? Have producers received that money? Have the plants received that money? Are the producers seeing the benefit of that money that was announced in the budget?