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Agriculture committee No, as the minister has said, it is now a little over $300 million. There'll be $203 million from the options program that will be redirected to other priorities in the agricultural sector.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
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Agriculture committee Should we get direction from the federal-provincial ministers to move with it in June, we are hoping the producer savings accounts program can be ready by 2008. However, the $600 million that the government announced would go out sooner than that, so that we can kickstart the pro
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee CAIS and production insurance are demand-driven programs. For example, the budget for BRM is $1.1 million. Every year CAIS has exceeded its budget. Production insurance has had a steady increase in terms of indemnities paid out to it. The grains and oilseeds payment actually pa
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee I'm not aware which program you're referring to. I'm sorry.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee As an example, on the day the options program was announced, the application forms were on the Internet and we actually received our very first application, and within five days we had a payment for the options, as one example. That was a good news story. The cost of production
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee A number of analyses were done before that program was created. People in the agricultural sector told us that it was difficult for them to use the renewal programs without getting funds to manage their businesses. This program was created in response to requests from the industr
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your question. When in terms of last year, the fiscal year or the calendar year?
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee Actually, in CAIS alone, over $1.1 billion went out. Production insurance was over $500 million. For grains and oilseeds, from the calendar year of April to April and not before that, it was over $350 million. The other part of the $755 million went out earlier in the previous ye
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee Directly, in terms of direct payments out of these programs, it was a little under $3 billion.
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Nada Semaan
Agriculture committee Actually, CAIS is part of the APF, but it is a statutory program, so you are correct that it would take any one of the parties two years. They would have to identify in advance that they want to remove themselves from it. As to the federal–provincial ministers, when they first m
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
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