Mr. Speaker, there is no such thing as a program that can be designed to do exactly what every individual producer wants it to do for them.
The reality of any program in Canada is that it is based on the amount of production of producers. If, for example, the gross sales of a farm in Canada are $75,000 or $80,000, the program is based on guaranteeing 70% of the gross margin, which is a considerably smaller sum than the gross sales. The program brings the farmer back up to 70% of the gross margin referring to a period of reference years prior to that.
I can tell the member that over the two years of the AIDA program in the province of Saskatchewan a bit shy of $400 million will be put into that province. The $500 million that we announced two weeks ago in Saskatchewan, along with Saskatchewan's 40%, and I trust that it will be there, will put another $200 million into that province for this year.
In co-operation with the Saskatchewan government and the federal folks the estimate is that another $200 million will go into Saskatchewan. That is on top of the $200 million that was connected with the announcement two weeks ago. This means that for this year those two programs with federal and provincial portions will put $400 million into the province of Saskatchewan.