Agriculture committee  We've got a number of programs in Manitoba to support the small plants. In our province, we only have the one federally inspected facility. The rest of them are small provincial plants, and we're very, very keen on keeping those folks in business as much as we can. SRM issues aside, we have programs in place to assist with the purchase of equipment, with the purchase and development of more cooler space, and those sorts of things.

Agriculture committee  It's a summary comment, I guess. I think you're hearing from the federal government and from the three provinces represented here that we can and we will meet the deadlines; whether we use May 1 as the functional deadline and July 12 as a regulatory deadline, we will meet those deadlines.

Agriculture committee  For clarification, as soon as those dollars were officially noted, Manitoba was notified as to our level of contribution of $10.3 million. There was no problem in knowing what the dollar value coming to the province was.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a pleasure to be here to speak to the committee on behalf of Minister Wowchuk and Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. I'll try not to be repetitive, but I will echo some of the comments that have been made. I think some of the comments are worthy of repetition.