Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here. I appreciate this and all the hard work you've done through this pandemic. It's wonderful to have you here and to be able to ask these questions.
I know you see that we're getting the same questions over and over from our panel. We get quite a bit of co-operation between parties, which I'm very proud of. We're all asking the same questions. We're all looking out for our agriculture sector. I hope you're getting the same kind of co-operation with the provinces and territories, because we're all working on the same ideas.
I just wanted to expand on.... You talked about compensation. Originally it was an eight-year horizon, and now we've condensed that support over four years. Can you just explain to our committee here why that decision came to be and how that can help with predictability?