A point of speculation there.
My question deals with the national abattoir system. Although we keep hearing perhaps too frequently that abattoirs and processing plants are gearing down production or stopping altogether, I have a project in the Rainy River district that has been in debate stage for many years. They've finally decided, because of the difficulties and the onerous conditions for a federally inspected abattoir, to go with the provincially inspected abattoir. And the issue comes down to how there can be such a vast difference that a cooperative organization would decide it couldn't meet the federal standards, which I understand are almost exactly the same as all the provincial standards. But the costs and the other things impacting them mean now they can only sell their product in Ontario as opposed to Manitoba, which is much closer than many of the other larger markets they would want to be able to compete in.
My question is what are we doing to each other when we can't as a nation...? Do people think the national standard is so vastly superior to the provincial standard, which it can't be? Clearly you can't throw the carcass on the sawdust floor, so why are we still debating this? Why can't we do these types of things?