Finance committee  I want to go back to the previous question asked by Ms. O'Connell. I'm a farmer as well. What would you do in agriculture to try to make it more efficient or less carbon intensive? The first thing that Mr. Korneychuk said about rail is that it stands, but farming has become an incredibly energy-intensive business at the moment.

Finance committee  The program that's now called AgriStability went through several different name changes over the past 15 years. The chair would remember lots of them, but CAIS was one acronym. The program was sort of evolving but it had these different names. The Conservatives again changed the name in 2006-07 to AgriStability.

Finance committee  The short answer is that I can't speak for them. I don't know why they haven't acted. I do know that within days of the election approximately a year ago, Mr. Goodale was doing print interviews in which he supported the idea of an audit to find out what had happened, where the taxpayer money went, where the farmer-paid assets went.

Finance committee  It was for the crop year 2011-12. The document was published in the spring of 2013.

Finance committee  The question of how to support farmers has always been contentious and there has been no perfect answer. I can say that I'm guilty of having criticized pretty well every government program that has been developed to try to support farmers, but the one that was there that was brought forward by the previous Liberal government, prior to 2006, was much better than what we have now.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to be here today. I don't have my presentation translated, but it will be coming shortly. I do have copies in English if anyone would like a copy after the meeting. By way of introduction, the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board was formed back in 2006 to facilitate opposition to the illegal order in council intended to remove barley from the jurisdiction of the Canadian Wheat Board.