Mr. Speaker, since June 1997 the government has increased support to the safety nets for Canadian farmers by 85%. Last year we put in place a program, for example, of interest free money available to individual producers. That will be available for producers again this year.
We are continuing to look at a number of ways in which we can add further support to combat the stress we know is there, particularly in the grains and oilseeds sectors of Canadian agriculture.