Mr. Speaker, I will give a short answer if you can tell me how much time I have left. One minute. My answer will have to be short.
What I wanted to say when I spoke about the farm in L'Assomption as an example of the government's lack of planning is that a week before it was closed down, the employees did not know the experimental farm was to be closed down.
Six months before closing down, a new building worth $3,5 million was opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Now, the annual operating budget was only about $1,3 million. The farm did not cost a lot to operate, but it was very productive and yielded very interesting results. In fact, it was just about to sign agreements with the private sector, but this was ignored, because cuts had to be made. I would not be surprised to hear that the real target was the farm at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and that it has not been hit because closing down the military college was already quite enough.
Thus, the government did not want to add the experimental farm at Saint-Jean to the list, so it chose two others elsewhere, thinking that everybody would be satisfied and that they were free to cut. That, Mr. Speaker, is what we want to denounce.