Mr. Chair, I have a couple of concerns.
The first one is that once again the government has tried to get to the APF report. We brought a motion in, as you know, at the beginning of the meeting again today to try to do that immediately and get to it right away.
I'm going to express one more time the concerns I had the other day. We have tried to urge the committee and the members of the opposition to be diligent and to get this report done quickly. I've been trying to convince them of that since--I don't know--probably last September or October. I saw the importance of the report, but I also saw the importance of doing it quickly, because the federal government and the provinces are having their negotiations. They've been doing that for over a year now; they're moving toward a new farm policy, so if we want to have an influence on that, it's important that we move quickly as well.
We put off our hearings last fall for a number of months because of this issue that Alex has brought up again today. We encouraged the committee to move quickly on this when we came back in January. Once again, it was put off for a number of months. We've only just recently been able to do the travelling, and then we had the excellent report, as Mr. Bellavance said yesterday. I think it was Mr. Bellavance or Mr. Gaudet who commented on the excellent report that we've got and the work we need to do on that.
That's why we thought it was important today to get to this report. I brought the motion forward in order to try to encourage that, but it's unfortunate that once again the opposition has together decided that they're not going to pursue that road today.
We've got farm organizations who are asking us to--