Agriculture committee  I think I'll go back a bit to one of my previous answers. Of course, in all of this, one of the key things is setting up parameters for the program: how you design it, what the eligible expenses are and what you're looking for in outcomes from the program. It's expenditure, so th

Agriculture committee  We do keep in regular contact with Transport Canada and obviously all the players in the grain handling system. We talk about investment priorities, for example, at the port of metro Vancouver. Certainly, the grain sector's views are communicated, either directly to the transport

Agriculture committee  I'm not going to give you any specific news on that front, Mr. MacGregor, but I would say that certainly transportation infrastructure funding is run out of both the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Canada. Certainly efforts to find the places where bottlenecks are greate

Agriculture committee  For the time being, the amount is set at $1,500. We can certainly review that limit. Our colleagues in some provinces also provide additional support to producers. That would be another option.

Agriculture committee  Let me be more clear. For the time being, the limit is $1,500. So we have to proceed on a case-by-case basis. If we are informed that it's causing major issues, we can certainly reassess the limit and check our funds to see if an increase is in order.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question. I have about the same response: we will simply need to look at our options. We have the federal budget or we have our internal funds. To be honest, we get lots of requests for the fund. Because it's popular, we have the option of considering an exten

Agriculture committee  Yes. We are also working with the Department of Employment and Social Development, which conducted a program review a year ago. It's not our responsibility, but we are trying to make sure that our colleagues understand the concerns raised by our stakeholders. I understand that c

Agriculture committee  It will be spent this year. This is the last amount allocated to the temporary foreign worker program or to the temporary foreign worker quarantine period.

Agriculture committee  We are waiting for applications from the workers who have already arrived, who are already in the country. Their applications are coming in and being evaluated, even for periods before March. That's definitely where the money will be spent.

Agriculture committee  I will let Ms. Walker answer that question.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Epp. Yes, as we would normally do with a program, we would have a group of eligible expenses, which we would communicate to applicants. For participating farmers, one of the big ones is the wages paid to workers over the course of the quarantine. We have an applic

Agriculture committee  We didn't cut anything. I will start, and then Ms. Walker can clarify. I believe we told the committee about this last summer. Because people are not travelling and we have changed the way we work, we found some funds that will not be spent this year, in the first appropriation

Agriculture committee  Yes. That amount was not used.

Agriculture committee  Are they in the budget somewhere?

Agriculture committee  This is a $200 million increase for the current fiscal year. It helped the commission manage the imbalances that occurred in the system last spring. As you know, a milk surplus was generated when the restaurant and hotel sectors suddenly had to suspend their operations. We theref