Our members are certainly open to any additional tools outside the core program to reduce risk and reduce the costs of these programs while increasing the efficiency of them. They do maintain, though, that those further investments in the core programs are critical.
You're right to raise that the increased risks that the industry faces are an additional cost to the industry and potentially increased spending through both levels of government, as they are cost-shared programs. Anything we can do to support producers while reducing the cost is worth looking into, absolutely, but we would maintain that those increased costs within the program are a worthwhile investment, given the magnitude of the economic impact the entire sector has on the Ontario and federal economies.
