I think it is, Mr. Chairman, in the fact that Mr. Easter is trying to surmise something that's.... I don't know whether he dreamed that up or if that was somebody else's idea that the minister.... That's not the reason at all. He made the comment as well that people were planning on using this. This program, or any program, is set up for people who need it, not people who plan to use it. I think that's a point there. I've never met a farmer yet who planned to live out of the mailbox. He'd far sooner get his cheque someplace else. So to say that people planned on using it would almost say that people were cooking their books or something. I don't know whether that's what Mr. Easter meant or not, but that's what it sounded like. As a farmer, and a lot of people that do, I resent that comment.
On May 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.