Mr. Speaker, I give the member a point. Picking rocks on Uncle Ted's farm certainly does not qualify me to be a farmer, and I do not pretend to be.
Being elected to a national parliament requires dealing with all kinds of different issues. I have never worked in a mine and yet I am very concerned about the mining industry in the province of Ontario. I have never worked in a steel plant, although my father, my uncle and cousins did, but I am very concerned about the impact of downloading and the pricing problem in the steel industry. I have never worked in the fisheries. Does that mean as a nationally elected politician I should have no concern for Canadians in Atlantic Canada?
I have never worked on an active farm. I admit that but it has nothing to do with it. The point is the hypocrisy I am pointing out in that party.