Francis Drouin at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

I understand how producers can endure an occasional crisis in a given year, but now they're being forced to deal with many consecutive crises from year to year. If they have cash problems, that unfortunately undermines their ability to overcome those crises.

How do you work with them when they're facing consecutive crises? The architecture of those programs was never designed to cope with crises that disrupt production from year to year as a result of uncontrollable factors.