Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to move amendment G-4. It is lengthy. There is a lot of text here. We all have it in front of us so I will not read it.
I will say that this is an amendment being made to the advance payments program. It came out of consultations once again that were held with the minister and his officials and stakeholders.
I will just give a bit of explanation to it. The minister is responsible for paying interest on the first $100,000 in accordance with section 9. The amendment clarifies that the producer continues to be responsible for the interest on amounts over $100,000 in the case where, through no fault of the producer, the product becomes unmarketable.
In addition, the reference to section 22 clarifies that if a default occurs following the application of section 11, the producer becomes liable for all the interest including the portion for which the minister pays the interest on behalf of the producer.
So we certainly did receive some feedback from the administrators of the APP. In fact, one of them was here, the Agricultural Credit Corporation, and made a comment that clarifying these types of clauses was helpful.