Thank you for that.
Let me switch gears now to the tobacco piece.You reference in the report the previous program, what we called TTAP, which happened in 2005. In your most recent report, under TTP, you talk about how they “rushed” the program out the door.
What you do reference—and I'm not at the page actually, but I can probably find it if you need it—is 2005, when there was a smaller buyout program. It isn't in your report, but we certainly know there were articles written back in 2005, 2006, and 2007 that talked about folks who took the buyout.
In fact, there was a lineup. In other words, there were at least three to four times more people who wanted out than could actually get out, because the funding was small. I think it amounted to $50 million to farmers and $67 million in total. There was a provincial piece added into that. They got $2 and change instead of $1.05 in the later program, which was only federal--no provincial included.
In a buyout program that had just happened in 2005 for tobacco producers in that area and in Quebec, with the next program getting rolled out in 2008—the TTP—one would have thought that the lessons you've outlined in this report would have been learned from what happened in 2005, which was just three years before, not thirty.
I wonder if you had the ability to look at whether there was any relationship between the two or whether there should have been any relationship between the two as far as the department looking at it was concerned.