Agriculture committee  Our first strategy is to work with the Do More Agriculture Foundation. The individuals behind that are farmers and they recognize some of the challenges that are out there and have really taken a leadership role. It would be our sponsorship of the first aid programs, with profess

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. We wouldn't have those numbers for you. I'm sorry.

Agriculture committee  From a training perspective, what we've focused on with our team is mental health first aid. That's typically been done through partnership with Bridges Health, which is a professional organization involved in that space, or with other partners like that across the country. The

Agriculture committee  From FCC's perspective, we would very much be anecdotally looking at what we're observing, be it through our crisis fund or through other interactions we have with customers and things that flow up into my office from our team. I couldn't agree more that some more study would be

Agriculture committee  From an FCC perspective, 4-H is one of our significant sponsorships. We do focus a lot on youth in agriculture, and 4-H, of course, is a flagship organization, with over 25,000 members and 7,000 leaders. What we are working on with them right now is enhancing their healthy living

Agriculture committee  From an FCC perspective, we come at this from a few different angles. We do a number of speaker sponsorships at association meetings and at major agriculture shows. Mental health would be one of the topics that we're really sponsoring into at this stage. Canada's Farm Progress S

Agriculture committee  In that space, we have not. A lot of it started with our employees, making sure that they can recognize some of the stresses when they see that one of their customers is experiencing some above-normal stress levels and they are able to direct them into some of the programming tha

Agriculture committee  From our perspective, the access I've had to that conversation has been mostly through one of our professional speakers, Dr. George Sabongui. He's a mental health stress specialist who talks about the key factors that contribute to some of the challenges with mental health. For s

Agriculture committee  Quite potentially, in terms of where we'll go with some of our mental health offers, that's an option for us, whether we would fund it through our crisis fund or as an issue that would be very specific to mental health so it doesn't get lost in that particular area of funding and

Agriculture committee  I would think that if we were to come up with a concept that made a lot of sense, there would be broad industry support in financing. Providing some of that wouldn't be the issue. It's mostly who could take it forward, coordinate it, and then decide who to reach out to to make th

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, we do the ag crisis fund within our organization for our customers. A relatively small amount of funding goes into it on a per instant basis, recognizing that our farm customers often have insurance and things like that to manage a fire or a tornado or expenses as it r

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, everybody. It is a pleasure to appear before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food on behalf of Farm Credit Canada, or FCC as I'll refer to us today. My name is Michael Hoffort, and I am the president and CEO of FCC. For th

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely. Again, it's looking at their history, where they're looking to go if they're expanding, and then what kind of space we have from a repayment ability perspective. Where the risks are apparent, we'll look at what they're up to in terms of actively managing. How muc

Agriculture committee  That's a good question.

Agriculture committee  Yes, one of the exciting things in agriculture in terms of the seeking out of knowledge is that the agriculture colleges are full to the brim. There are 12,000 students right now in Canada studying agriculture, in either a university or a college, which is really good because we'