Provincial Programs Farm Family Advisor Program Provides confidential peer counselling for farm families in financial difficulty. Also available to provide a second opinion on improving their operations, and to help in preparing projections for creditors.
Advisors are from outside the local community.
Professional Services Assistance Program Provides financial assistance to the farmer to hire professional assistance when faced with crucial decisions in times of severe financial stress. Applicants must demostrate financial difficulty in order to qualify. The service is private, confidential and an economical alternative to the often costly, public and drawn-out process of resolving insolvency disputes in the courts. Where this is noth successful, the parties still have recourse to the courts. Under the former Farm Deby Review Act, over 70 per cent of cases were successfully resolved using the mediation approach.