Agriculture committee  Starting the dialogue is key. We're at this point here right now. We appreciate the opportunity to have the dialogue. That's a key first step. That's one that we're certainly appreciative of. Successive reviews in the past haven't come to the root of the problem. The devil is goi

Agriculture committee  Certainly, deferring the payments under the advance payments program has been a welcome relief for our farmers, but we continue to see that we can't borrow our way out this. This is not what we want to do. We want to have a suite of programs in place that are effective, timely an

Agriculture committee  That was the prioritization on production insurance for livestock and horticultural crops. Currently, the insurance programs that are in place don't cover the whole suite of products that we as an industry grow and produce, so we would like to see that enhanced to the point wher

Agriculture committee  I would agree, for sure, that any R and D that goes into those types of issues that help us move forward in these increasingly changing times would certainly be welcome. With regard to recognition of what farmers and the agricultural industry do from a climate change perspectiv

Agriculture committee  That's a good question. Scott, do you want to respond?

Agriculture committee  Yes, undoubtedly. The return to 85% is what we would consider a short- to mid-term mitigation step in ensuring that our suite of programs is making sense. Is it the final answer of what the BRM suite is going to look like? We're not sure. However, as Ms. Roberts alluded to before

Agriculture committee  Yes, it is definitely possible. We've asked in the past for some more detail. For example, I sit on the national program advisory committee, which is a government-led committee reporting back to industry on the BRM programming, and we've asked for an increased level of access t

Agriculture committee  Maybe I'll defer to Scott to talk in a little more detail.

Agriculture committee  That gets back to Mr. Barlow's question that we were talking about before. For us to understand the constraints being put in place, we need to have a look at the data. We need to have an underlying understanding of the reasons for it and how we can make it better. We're being ask

Agriculture committee  I have 15 second. Okay. We're asked to develop a program that moves the industry forward, and as soon as we put constraints in place ahead of time, how can we effectively develop a program that makes sense? It should be the opposite. We should be developing a program and then

Agriculture committee  When the program cuts were put in place...we're now at a position where we're actually at 70% of 70%. These reference margin limits were introduced by the government purely as a cost-saving measure from a budgetary perspective. That goes to the root of one of the key issues that

Agriculture committee  Yes, absolutely, I couldn't agree more. When those changes, the cuts to the programs, were put in place it was at a point in time when income levels were relatively stable and, as an industry, we were in a good place. As you mentioned, those introductions were put in as cost-sav

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and committee members, for the opportunity to appear before you to speak on the state of Canada's business risk management programs. Ensuring an effective BRM program is critical to our membership, and we welcome this very timely discussion on w