Mr. Speaker, this program involved 242,000 applications. It covered 77.6 million acres of farm land, 720,000 different parcels which had to be adjusted for 924 distance factors and over a dozen different soil zones. This was the largest and most complicated program of its kind in Canadian history.
I am very pleased to note the auditor general's observations. He said in his report: "Nothing came to our attention in the course of our review to suggest that there were significant problems with these payments". Given the dour and taciturn nature of auditors, that is as close as we can come to high praise.