Agriculture committee  Yes, I would suggest that would be a fair statement. We're seeing debt levels rise to unprecedented levels. We're also seeing the cost of production in various sectors increase and in some cases outpace the rising revenues. We're seeing a shrinking margin that increases the risks

Agriculture committee  We will get in touch and try to submit it, yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes, correct. What would your question be, and are you looking for a list of those things?

Agriculture committee  Sure. There are a number of points noted in the submission that was provided back in April. I think there are about 15 items in total that were noted in it. Those are the items that we feel would be extremely beneficial, if all of them were looked into and followed through. Some

Agriculture committee  To clarify, we do want to remove the CAP and we want to remove the reference margin limit. We haven't made a comment on going to 85% on the trigger, but we're not against that. If that's what industry and government decide, that's great for producers. The concern—and this is no

Agriculture committee  The administrations over the past number of years have made changes to make it easier for producers to apply. They are requesting less information than they did historically, when the program was first brought out. It was beneficial in some cases for producers to have to provide

Agriculture committee  I'll take that one, Steve. Thanks, John, for the question. AgriInvest does put money into producers' hands on a regular basis, and more quickly. It could be used as a savings account for when situations like this happen. In order to make it more effective, though, you would nee

Agriculture committee  You would have to go back a number of years to get back to 5%. More recently, we've been moved down to 1%. At 1% it takes a long time to build up an account, even in the matching, whereby you get 2% a year, right? If we're looking at AgriInvest to cover the shortfalls of what A

Agriculture committee  Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to present to you. In April, MNP provided this committee with a number of recommendations for improvements that can be made to the existing suite of business risk management programs to support Canadian farmers. Our goal then, as