Agriculture committee  I would ask Scott to jump in here. He is our BRM expert at CFA.

Agriculture committee  We submitted that to government. These are our emergency preparedness documents on the strategy. With regard to the building of the numbers, I'm not sure if that's public yet or not. Is it, Scott?

Agriculture committee  I believe we know what it would cost for the AgriInvest. Was it $1 billion? What was the number, Scott?

Agriculture committee  As to your question, Kody, you're wondering what the cost would be for....

Agriculture committee  Scott.

Agriculture committee  We do know that there's massive diversity in Canada, not just in commodities, but also in the nuances of how that's playing out regionally. We know there are some commodities that are hurting exponentially now, and the level of hurt varies. Here in Prince Edward Island, we have a

Agriculture committee  Well, I think in western Canada our grain growers are seeing shipments move quite well. Beyond that, I'm not really sure of any others. Scott, is there anyone that you think stands out?

Agriculture committee  We're certainly looking for financial incentives to bring people who are currently displaced from their usual jobs, or unemployed, to come to work on farms. We feel that we need some financial tools to do that because we need to incentivize people to leave home and put themselves

Agriculture committee  Scott, can you speak to that? I'm not really up to speed on that.

Agriculture committee  We have heard from several members who have had trouble accessing that because of the structure of their business.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I believe so, and we certainly have much larger operations where that money is maybe not that significant to keep them going. Again, there would be diversity.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question, John. Well, when we look at our pork sector, they had estimated that in order for them to.... Obviously, none of the requests that are included in the $2.6 billion are people's expectations of coming out of this whole. What we're looking at is that we

Agriculture committee  I didn't come prepared to speak to the carbon tax today. I did come prepared to speak about COVID. I think we want to convey the message that we are keen to continue working with government. Hopefully, we will see some real momentum and traction here and we'll be able to find mec

Agriculture committee  We, too, saw those numbers. Just to put a real number on it, that's probably 30,000 farms that we're facing losing due to COVID this year. As for the impact of that, certainly we will feel it on food, but rural Canada will certainly feel it beyond food. Agriculture is the fabric

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee. We appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Mary Robinson, and I farm. Mine is a sixth-generation family farm in P.E.I., and I am the president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, the largest general fa