Mr. Speaker, just last week I met with the American Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns. We discussed and made good progress on things like nematodes, BSE and border issues.
I appointed a new Canadian Wheat Board director. We have made good progress on marketing choice for prairie farmers.
We invested $10 million to get farmers started in biofuels. That is a good start.
The money is starting to flow from our cover crop programs.
We have extended compensation to the farmers affected by anthrax.
We accelerated the grains and oilseeds payment of $755 million and, more importantly, $2 billion will come into farmers' hands between now and the end of the year.