Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to announce $1.5 billion in additional spending for this year.
Today we announced the enhanced spring credit advance program that will double the amount of maximum interest free loans to $100,000 per farmer. We will allow them to repay that until September 2007.
We are changing the AMPA program to include more agricultural sectors to get access to the program.
We are addressing the failures of the previous Liberal CAIS program by adjusting the inventory valuations back to 2003, 2004 and 2005.
We are putting $950 million today into farmers' hands.