Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question of the member for West Nova. Part of the problem he is addressing about the Annapolis Valley would be resolved if there were an extension on the three year period for AIDA to which I referred in my speech.
Farmers have gone through a tough patch and had no crop. Under AIDA they cannot put down a negative margin. They can only put down a zero. If they have lost $20,000 or $30,000 in a crop year they cannot include it at the moment under the AIDA application. Extending that out to five or seven years would give a better picture and get a truer value of the extent of the loss farmers and producers are suffering.