Keith is absolutely right. Without the ability to speak to specific numbers in terms of impact losses—although we can certainly provide the committee with that information if it's interesting—I think the issue from our perspective is having a risk management framework in place that is responsive, timely and there to support farmers when they need it.
Certainly, we've seen, as Keith said in his introductory remark, an increasing incidence of extreme weather events across this country. There have been floods, forest fires, drought, too much rain or not enough rain, and hurricanes. It's really quite something.
The problem is that our risk management framework is not equipped to deal with that level of incidence of extreme events. Programs like AgriRecovery are just not as responsive as their U.S. equivalents and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for example. Therefore, when a drought hits Saskatchewan and it's hitting that whole area into the U.S., U.S. farmers are able to access some emergency support and purchase feed for their farms much more quickly than we can here in Canada, which really puts us at a serious disadvantage.
For example, I know that Saskatchewan has a request in right now for an AgriRecovery program to support them for some drought conditions they've experienced, and they made that request in July. We still haven't heard the response on that, and that's just the first step in the process. There are several that need to come after that before we actually will get some money.