Agriculture committee  You could ask Lloyd Rosser to respond to that one, if you don't mind. He is actually the person working on all the details.

Agriculture committee  In terms of the province of Alberta, as I mentioned, they can still take up the drought assistance program before the end of March. However, we are currently working with them on the potato cyst nematode on the seed potatoes. The government is very engaged with us. That is an issue we are having to respond to, and that package should be coming out shortly as well.

Agriculture committee  We will provide you with the breakdown for Agrilnvest, by province. I don't have it with me, but we will provide that to the standing committee. On the breakdown by commodity, these programs are whole-farm. Because of the trade implications, we stayed very far from doing breakdown by commodities.

Agriculture committee  The average uptake right now in the Kickstart program.... The money is out. If we were to take a look at the cost of production, which is based on the--

Agriculture committee  Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were asking who was going to apply for it. I believe the average payment on Kickstart was about $2,000 to $2,200.

Agriculture committee  There were a number of questions. I hope I get them all. On the options, it was always a two-year pilot. The second year, however, was limited. The scope was changed in the second year to limit it to participants who participated in the first year of the pilot, rather than just allow any producers to apply for the second year.

Agriculture committee  I can't respond on the accountants' fees. I do know that the program has two elements: one is a direct payment to producers, and the other one is for them to take renewal-type programs, and they can take—

Agriculture committee  Yes. The options program has two components. The first component is a direct payment to the individuals, the farm family. With the second one, in order for them to get that payment they must agree to enrol in a renewal-type program, whether it be CASS, whether it be PAVE, one of those.

Agriculture committee  As I mentioned, the programs that this program funds are direct payments that we actually provide to producers. The other one is renewal programs. They are specific renewal programs that go to a number of different areas. Some of them are administered by provinces; some of them--

Agriculture committee  That is the average. It goes up to $45,000 for the large farms, in terms of--

Agriculture committee  Yes. It goes as high as $45,000.

Agriculture committee  Sure, absolutely.

Agriculture committee  That's exactly how it was streamlined. What we actually did was that we took the lessons of the last 20 or 30 years from disaster relief and created a process whereby as soon as anybody—including a producer organization—says they're in trouble, that something has happened, the governments then work together and with interested stakeholders.

Agriculture committee  Or actually, I shouldn't say “federal”--a “government” dollar.

Agriculture committee  We've started sending cheques out.