Agriculture committee  Today, we announced a program to address precisely this challenge. In English it is called a set-aside program. I'm sorry, I don't know the French term. We have set aside $50 million to work with the provinces. This amount will be used to cover the additional costs arising from

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will probably start in French then switch to English, then return to French.

Agriculture committee  I'd like to thank you all for your invitation. It is a pleasure to join you virtually. I was also present, along with the minister, at the committee's last meeting on March 12. We are here today to talk to you about the Government of Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. T

Agriculture committee  These delays are severely impacting the cattle and hog sectors, increasing costs for producers as they need to keep their animals longer on farms, while prices are changing rapidly. One important step we have taken so far was providing federal guidance to recognize the food supp

Industry committee  I would say first off that I think the level of integration has served us quite well. If you look at the food system overall—and the minister talked earlier on about keeping the border open—indeed you see it's an issue in the pork and beef industries, but also in many parts of ou

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Dreeshen, and thanks, Siddika. We certainly are looking with provincial colleagues at how we might use programs like the AgriRecovery program, which is for extraordinary costs. Depopulation or extended feeding of animals could certainly be the kinds of costs that

Industry committee  We're in pretty regular contact first of all with the industry, and in particular in this case with the Meat Council and others, to talk about some of the challenges and to make sure that those are well understood, and the sector has been I think quite effective in terms of respo

Agriculture committee  As I told Mr. Drouin and Mr. Blois, we will always work with the sector if there are investment proposals in the processing sector. We are always willing to work with the stakeholders to see whether programs can help them. Second, with regard to—

Agriculture committee  Dairy producers. Yes.

Agriculture committee  Indeed, it's just for the two.

Agriculture committee  I will go back to what the minister said. There has been a lot of work done on looking at the impacts with the sector. I think the next question is that they will be programming the full and fair compensation that the government's committed to, and that will come when it's announ

Agriculture committee  It's a bit like Mr. Parent's question. I can't tell you when.

Agriculture committee  The $1.75 billion was calculated based on work that was done with the dairy producers. The first tranche, the $345 million, that payment has already been made largely, I think, by the end of this fiscal year. About 95% or 96% of the payments have already gone.

Agriculture committee  It's a direct cash transfer. How the subsequent years will be rolled out will be determined with dairy producers.

Agriculture committee  Yes, and I can't speak to it. It's similar. I can't really speak to specific timing other than to say that we work pretty closely with Health Canada and Global Affairs to understand all the issues around the proposals that were on the table and how they might change.