Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I have some serious concerns here.
We've had some great commitments by the department as to what they're going to do, but I see that the Auditor General audited the farm support programs in 1991, 1994, and 1996, and at that time they noted the need to strengthen the program administration in areas such as payment, accuracy, verification, error correction, and on-farm audits. Now here we are in 2008 with the same arguments and the same commitments, I presume, Mr. Chairman, so what's new?