Our plan includes the following: a voluntary Canadian Wheat Board marketing system to give farmers the flexibility to price their grain to suit their individual business needs; a more efficient
, competitive grain transportation system based on the complete Estey report; a national disaster assistance program to provide dependable,
predictable safety nets; improvements to the NISA program, with particular emphasis on young farmers; improvements to crop insurance, including consideration of a private insurance program; pursuit
of a zero ...[+++] for zero agreement on subsidies and trade-distorting mechanisms in the current round of World Trade Organization talks; tax relief on fuel, equipment and land; increasing the Canadian Wheat Board cash advance loan rate; food aid as a means to move grain through the system and improve farmers' cash flows; and facilitating farmer involvement in value-added processing initiatives.