Madam Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary and I appreciate his congratulations. Still they have not yet found solutions because if we go back to what he was saying earlier concerning dairy products, they allowed in soy oil and cheese sticks that could possibly have brought in over $1 billion for farmers from 1997 to 2002.
I think the Prime Minister and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food should go off together on a crusade to the United States. If memory serves, during the crisis of September 11, 2001, the United States was on its knees begging Canada to strengthen security. Why is it that today, because of one poor little mad cow, our whole agricultural industry has been brought down? What I would like would be for the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food to set out on a crusade with the Prime Minister and other important ministers. I am just wondering if the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is really a minister or if he is just a pawn the government has put in place. It seems to me that he does not get support from the rest of the cabinet. He is always all alone in his corner. So I am really wondering whether or not he has been forgotten.