All right.
Yes, we'd like certain adjustments to be made to the risk management programs to afford businesses a vision of the future. They must be able to cope with climate change and the price swings that may occur in the next few years.
There's the AgriStability program at the federal level. Without going into the technical details, I'll just say that this program is based on margin variations over a five-year period. Of course, climate change will cause more variations and, as a result, more than one in five years will be bad. Consequently, we think a major change has to be made to the AgriStability program to take climate change into account.
The same is true of all the harvest insurance programs administered by the provinces. Producers would also have to take out extended coverage, to deal with climate change, and possibly disaster insurance coverage for extreme cases.
The purpose of these recommendations by the Association des producteurs maraîchers du Québec is to maintain future fruit and vegetable activity. Stable fruit and vegetable operations necessarily mean stable prices.