That's a good question, and one that we've thought about quite a bit.
Before CAIS and AgriStability and the suite of programs, we had a program called NISA, the net income stabilization account. There were challenges with NISA. Growers, farmers, would have huge account balances and still be saying, “We can't access that money, but we're hurting here.” There were a lot of ad hoc payments taking place at the same time. To me, the simple fix was to adjust those triggers so that the money could be accessed when it was needed. The approval rating among farmers for net income stabilization was extremely high, and the cost of administration was extremely low. Something is needed, and that seemed to do a pretty good job.
Now before that, there was Tripartite, which was a price stabilization system that was extremely effective. It was one-third, one-third, one-third, producer-province-federal. The program was slow in paying because you had to get all your numbers in. It was two years lagging, but it allowed people to access the funds they needed to cover their cost of production, plus a reasonable profit.