Mr. Chairman, I want to respond to that.
One of the problems with this is it seems as if all of a sudden the member for Malpeque has decided this is a program he wants to support. We spent the last year trying to get support for the program: no major farm group supported it at any point, that we could find.
The minister said he didn't get one single letter from any member of Parliament supporting the program. He got a lot of responses that indicated people didn't support the program. I think that it's important. I'm going to take some time to read some of those comments into the record that were made by MPs about this program, because I think it's important that we have that information. I think it's important we put it together in one package.
I want you to know I don't necessarily agree with the comments that are made here, but I think we need to note them. I'm going to quote a number of comments from MPs.