Mr. Ritz indicated that the Auditor General indicated to him she couldn't do anything for two years. That's certainly not acceptable. If there is no way she can do it, I'm sure he could find an independent group to look at it. It's also been indicated that the Wheat Board was willing to have someone look at this report they had done for them by Gibson. Examining a report that was done by their former employee I don't think is a great expenditure of our time. We really need to have a look at the....
I have no problem with the pooling side of things. This is where it's critical. For those who want to pool, I have never disagreed with people's ability to pool. If I were a farmer pooling, I'd be really upset if I knew that money that was supposed to go into my pool was being rerouted into a free market program I didn't want to participate in. We'd been told for years that those two were going to be kept separate and that's what the contingency fund was for. We found out that's not what's happening. We need to have this clarified.
What's going on with the contingency fund and what's going on with those trading accounts? No matter what the board wants to spend this year, they lost a lot of money trading grain. Anyone else would have been fired over this. We need to get to the bottom of this.
Yes, we're calling for an independent review done especially on that trading deficit. We don't need to look at the pooling accounts, the office work, or anything like that. We need to look at that trading deficit and the contingency fund.