Mr. Speaker, I am bothered by one point. We hear the government say that it will provide $900 million for farmers. That sounds great, but we read documentation that says the problem with AIDA as it is currently designed is that it denies those benefits to many of the producers it was originally supposed to help.
As currently designed the AIDA program will not distribute the $900 million the federal government committed to farmers over the next two years. It is a fallacy to say that $900 million will be provided. It could be said that $60 billion will be provided, but if the program is designed so that no one receives it what good is it?