Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There's just a couple of things that I'd like to go through. When a person takes a look at the size.... A lot of time you discuss family farms and helping out small farmers and that type of thing, but I think you'd be surprised just how big the farm would have to be in order to meet that $400,000 that could come to that operation.
I think sometimes the numbers that were given before, it was a small percentage that even get above the $100,000. I think that's a significant aspect of it. I think I heard numbers of 2% to 6% were pushing the $400,000. There are a lot of aspects to it. When we first started talking about the advance and making sure that it had some flexibility, that did happen while we were talking about the grain delivery issues we were having.
So I think if a person's trying to put two of these things together, then it was important to make sure that farmers understood that it was there and that they could have used this as a program to help them out as far as their operation was concerned.
Having said that, yes, the Canadian Canola Growers did come and suggest that it wouldn't hurt increasing it. They are the administrators of the particular program that we're speaking of. I think they may have been speaking to their capacity to be able to handle that. But as far as the reality as to what is required out on the farm, you take a look at, if you are big enough that you would be entitled to a $400,000 loan through this particular program, you're dealing with other financial institutions as well and the question is whether or not the federal government should have to deal with that.
I think the $400,000 is where it should be, without the other dramatic aspects of it.