Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
To the minister and all of your folks from the department, I certainly thank you for being here.
As a grain farmer, I had no prouder moment than when we delivered the first loads of freedom wheat to our local elevator. That was made possible, of course, by our government's marketing freedom for western grain farmers act. With support for this from a majority of grain farmers, the government made it a priority to make marketing freedom for farmers as it went through the dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board's single-desk monopoly. Also, as anticipated, we finally saw this commercialization of the Canadian Wheat Board earlier this month.
In the main estimates, there is $24 million allocated especially to the Canadian Wheat Board transition program. Can you go over that in some detail and tell us just what this actually means to farmers?