Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Perhaps Mr. Atamanenko and Mr. Bellavance speak from the heart on this, but it's absolutely shameful the politics the Liberal Party of Canada is playing when they come here today and say “We can't believe you made an announcement without us”. But not five minutes after Mr. Easter saw it, he put out his own announcement taking credit for the entire measure and saying the Liberal Party would have got this done if they'd had three more days in office.
How are we supposed to move forward with some of these initiatives, Mr. Bellavance, when you take an example like biofuels? I haven't heard you criticize any of the witnesses who have come before us on that, but your own party doesn't support the initiative on biofuels. The opposition parties are back and forth on these things.
The Liberal Party supported it until it was time to get something done for farmers on biofuels, and now they're teetering on that as well. If the Government of Canada were to run the way the opposition parties do, we'd never have a decision made on anything. That's exactly what was done for 13 years. So I'm glad we have somebody who wants to stand up and get something accomplished for Canadian farmers.
On “Product of Canada” and what the Prime Minister and the minister announced, it's very clear that's exactly what all of our constituents want to see, so we got something accomplished. As a committee, we should be happy that we helped push that forward.
If you're hoping to get recognition for work of the Government of Canada, I don't think you'd run for the Bloc Québécois.