Agriculture committee  I'll let Mr. Slade because there's more.... I think my statistics were misunderstood a bit, but they are in the same direction. I'm good.

Agriculture committee  I think so. That is sort of what we have said in answering other questions. I have always thought that this was the simplest and the most profitable program. Of course, the percentage would have to be higher than 1%. That would help us gather funding pretty quickly to protect our

Agriculture committee  Anything would be good, but 3% or 4% would be practically the required minimum to gather funding quickly enough to protect ourselves.

Agriculture committee  You did understand me correctly. That could be one of the options. We feel that four programs are too many. I know that each has its own role to play to a point, but their coexistence makes things extremely complicated.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I agree with that.

Agriculture committee  We have thought about it, but we have not had many discussions on it. That could be interesting.

Agriculture committee  That is a broad question. I give you the example of our farm. We have been producing apples for 40 years and we have participated in all the available programs, or almost all of them, including AgriInsurance, AgriStability and AgriInvestment. We have never been able to benefit f

Agriculture committee  It would definitely help us a lot. People from the west made the same comment at the meeting and the same things are being said in our neck of the woods. I talked about 80%, but 85% would definitely be better. People have used this program in the past, but they no longer use it

Agriculture committee  We don't actually have insurance on either beef or pork in the area, but I think the concept could be interesting. It could maybe even apply to crops also. Our biggest crop, of course, is potatoes. We've seen a drastic diminution, a decline in participation, and that's our majo

Agriculture committee  Yes. It makes sense. We've been asked by cattle producers and pork producers to try to have an insurance program available for them, so it would be a good thing to discuss and investigate, for sure. It's a good idea.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The comments I will make today are general and concern eastern Canada. I would first like to say that, although we currently live in a somewhat poor province, New Brunswick, we are Canadians first. As farmers, we compete on the same markets—either domestic