Mr. Speaker, I remind the Leader of the Opposition to go back and read Hansard because I specifically stated that we are continuing to target resources, reducing taxes, paying down public debt and investing in the knowledge of people and safeguarding and improving our health care system. If I am not mistaken, a number of those are goals of the official opposition as well.
With reference to the NISA, when there is a safety net put in place there is always the challenge of distribution. Some producers made a business decision not to take part in the NISA. Some people said it was a decision that they could not take part in the NISA as beginning farmers or whatever their reasons might have happened to be.
Let us look at the size of the NISA in Canada, its value, the total amount of money available. I have repeatedly said that we are looking at how we can do other things, use other resources, how our producers can use all of the tools presently available in the toolbox. Let us compare the value of the NISA to the United States industry which is between eight and nine times the size of ours. Eight to nine times $2.5 billion would mean that our NISA funds are equivalent to over $20 billion relative to the United States. That is a considerable sum of money.