Mr. Alan Ker at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On June 12th, 2020. See this statement in context.

June 12th, 2020 / 3:45 p.m.

Ontario Agricultural College Research Chair in Agricultural Risk and Policy, Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics and Managing, As an Individual

Alan Ker

If I would guess now, if we were a year from now and we looked back, I think we might be surprised at how many payments were triggered under AgriStability—I mean the lack thereof. Again, that's because the coverage has dropped quite a bit, down to 70%. I think we're going to be surprised at how we have this pandemic and the lack of triggering AgriStability payments. Whether that should be moved up or not, I suspect this was a government budgetary decision, pegged at where it needed to be for the budgetary outlay. If it were to be raised, then it would require more budget. It's as simple as that.

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