Thank you very much, Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here today to talk about the estimates in front of committee.
We have two sets of estimates in front of us. We have the supplementary estimates (C), and we have the main estimates. As I was reviewing the main estimates, I had a question about business risk management programming. Business risk management, or BRM programming, is very important to our farmers. Certainly on committee we have done a number of studies, and the subject comes up in a number of different studies. There are many comments about it. I think we have a fairly good understanding of business risk management programming. I'm wondering if you might be able to explain, for example, to my colleagues on the other side why, in the main estimates, on page 38, we might see a decrease in BRM spending in this next fiscal year. Often I find, Minister, that we're criticized when there's a decrease that's noted in the estimates. There's always a reason for that. I'm wondering if you could explain to the committee why there might be a reduction forecast for the next year.