Thank you, Chair.
I have a question, Mr. Poirier. In your notes, the one thing that stuck out in my mind was that you said that stability is very important to fishermen. You're talking about economic stability when you say that, about having predictable revenues coming in. I'm looking at graph 4, which shows the net revenues for the enterprise. If we go back, from 2002 to 2006, things look not too bad.
Then you started to talk about agriculture. I'm an Albertan. You're talking about wanting to merge Agriculture and Fisheries so that you can have access to some of the income stabilization programs. I can tell you, sir, that I don't know of anybody who phones my office to say, “I am getting too much money from the agricultural support programs.” I'm going to caution you to be careful what you wish for.
However, there is one program that was gone for a while, called NISA, the net income stabilization account. It went away, and recently we put a similar type of program in place. It's called the AgriInvest account. What this account actually allows farmers to do is take some money away in a tax deferred account in good years so that in a bad year, or in a year when revenues are down, the farmer can draw down on that account to pay the taxes. That helps stabilize the farmer's income.
Is there any access to a program like that for fishermen?