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17. Contractual obligations and contingencies:
Contractual obligations:
The Corporation is committed to the Saskatchewan Ministry of SaskBuilds and Procurement, a related crown entity, for several leases
for office space with annual payments of $3,283,495. The leases are currently renewable on an annual basis.
Subsequent to March 31, 2021, the Corporation is also committed to other corporations for the purchase of weather data and the lease
of equipment for weather stations around Saskatchewan. Minimum payments of $795,000 are expected for the next fiscal year.
The Corporation entered into a reinsurance contract with Willis Re for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The Corporation is committed for the
crop aggregate excess of loss reinsurance contract for 2021-22. The contract cost is in the range of $25.5 million to a maximum $28.0
million per year based on a projected liability of $7.85 billion. The contract covers indemnities that exceeds 23 per cent of the liability
to a maximum of $431.6 million.
Subsequent to March 31, 2021, the Corporation entered into an agreement with Deloitte Inc. to provide system integrator services
in support of the Corporation’s Enterprise Business Modernization project which includes the implementation of the Oracle Cloud
solution. The contract will end in 2021-22 fiscal year at an estimated cost of $6,860,000.
Contingencies:
Pursuant to the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP);A Federal-Provincial-Territorial Framework Agreement on Agriculture, AgriFood
and Agri-based Products Policy in the event the agreement is terminated and no new agreement is entered into, all tangible
capital assets funded under the agreement shall be disposed of and the proceeds shall be shared by the Government of Saskatchewan -
Ministry of Agriculture and the Government of Canada. As of March 31, 2021, all tangible capital assets owned by the Corporation have
been funded by this agreement.
Various legal actions for additional crop insurance indemnity payments have been initiated against the Corporation. Presently, the
Corporation is actively defending these cases. While the outcome of these claims cannot be determined, management is of the opinion
that the result of these actions will not have a material impact on the Corporation’s financial position.
18. Comparative information
Certain comparative information has been reclassified to conform to the current year’s presentation.
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