Mr. Chair, I'm glad to be here. I don't know that I have five minutes of questioning, so if Mr. Shipley is ready, that's fine.
I want to talk a little bit about the agricultural insurance side of things. In my part of the world, there has been discussion for many years about the possibility of private companies being able to do some of the work in terms of the insurance, and perhaps even on a larger scale than just western Canada—western Canada, mid-west, and those kinds of things.
Has the government ever taken any initiatives to look into that, to consider whether private insurance, in cooperation with farmers and government, might be able to provide the insurance needs that producers have? I guess I'm thinking primarily about the crop sector, but it may work in some other areas as well.