Mr. Speaker, the hon. member knows that the AIDA money announced by the government a year ago was for over two years. A portion of that money was allocated and it was assumed it would be sent out to the farmers after their applications were reviewed as a result of their 1998 business. By far of the majority, there will be very few of those. When the information is all in from the producers, there will be very few applications that trigger a payment as a result of 1998 that will not be in the hands of the producers.
In the House of Commons on December 15th, 1999. See this statement in context.