Thank you for that question.
One of the things we heard very early on from farmers was that the advance payments program really was a key part of their marketing strategy. The advance payments program provides farmers with cashflow early in their growing season, with up to $100,000 interest-free. And it provides them the opportunity to avoid marketing dips, which they might have to sell into if they were short of cashflow. They can avoid that, holding back their grain until there's a better opportunity price-wise.
The Canadian Canola Growers Association has been administering the advance payments program for canola growers for quite some time. There is about a 40% overlap between the canola growers membership for users of APP and what the Wheat Board was doing.
The working group did hear from farmers that what we needed to do was to keep the APP going, and we needed to do it quickly. So as part of the policy decision when we moved to marketing choice, the assignment of the APP was to the Canadian Canola Growers. They'll continue to administer the winter wheat program and then they will take up the whole program next year.