Mr. Speaker, the budget documents and all the answers offered by various ministers of the government have indicated the payment being directed toward the landowner.
A number of farm organizations in western Canada have asked for the opportunity to provide advice to the government with respect to the administrative arrangements surrounding that payment so that we could ensure as far as is humanly possible that the benefit from the payment is spread as broadly as possible and as fairly as possible in good common sense.
Despite the representations of the Reform Party, I intend to listen as closely as I can to the advice from farm organizations and take their representations into account.