I'd like to thank the ministers for being here.
Honestly, I think we've seen some red flags over the last few months. You know, there is a bumper crop. We've definitely asked many questions in the House of Commons about this issue. One thing we've brought up is increasing fines from $100,000 to about $250,000, a mechanism for actually compensating our farmers. We need quick and clear timelines to implement these measures and regulations and also mandatory price reporting for better transparency.
I would just like to go over what the Saskatchewan minister brought up. He actually said, “At first blush...the legislation itself is deficient. We made some substantial asks and they weren't numbers that we pulled out of the air.”
I was wondering if you could comment on how you got 11,000 cars a week when he's asked for 13,000 cars a week. Perhaps you could also comment on increasing fines to $250,000. What we have right now is up to $100,000, which is not given back to farmers as compensation.