On Mr. Savage's point about the agriculture announcement in a Bloc riding, of course we'd want to make sure that the Quebeckers in that riding know that this is a Canadian program, that it's from the Government of Canada, not from the separatist party. I just think they'd probably have to let people in that riding know this.
However, I don't think it's possible to have riding by riding. It's a new program. I think that has been overlooked again. It's a new program. It was the deputy minister who all of the opposition parties commended for the competence of the department. They're doing very well at what they're doing; they know what they are doing. Therefore why do they question the deputy minister when she said that privacy is an issue? I don't know why we are challenging the deputy minister on that. So I don't think it's possible to get it riding by riding, because it's a new program.
How many applications are they going through—60,000, 80,000? I don't remember right now.
They're working very hard. As you can see, we already took one hour out of their time, and they have precious little time. There are a lot of objectives and criteria that they have to review and get this money flowing. I think it only speaks to how the opposition are more concerned about their political points than about getting this program to the people who need it—the new program for all of Canada.