Does a payment under the federal risk management program counterbalance a provincial payment or does it become debt? In Quebec, a federal payment can be made under the farm income stabilization insurance program, ASRA.
Take, for example, a producer with two crops, one covered by ASRA and one that is not stabilized and has received federal support for one of seven years. That year, the money was deducted from a provincial program for another crop, given that the provincial government had advanced funds to that federal program.
I personally had that experience in 2003-04. From two different crops, the province of Quebec held back one-third of the amount that the federal government had paid. That's crazy.