Mr. Speaker, we certainly are aware of the unfortunate circumstances that low commodity prices in the world are bringing to many of our Canadian farmers.
I remind everyone that we already have one of the best safety net systems in the world. For example, it has $2.5 billion in the NISA accounts. We are making arrangements so that farmers can draw on that earlier if they need it.
In addition, last week I called a meeting for November 4 of the key farm leaders in Canada and the provincial governments so that we could talk about the realities of today, how we will discuss those and how we will approach improving the situation for Canadian farmers.