Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have a couple of things I'd like to do. One, I'd like to make sure that when we talk about competitiveness we're actually talking about my motion, which is very specific to the Competition Act, which is something that I know Mr. Easter has talked about since I was in school. This goes with the question I have for Mr. Easter. He wants to move the livestock industry discussion up in the schedule. I don't disagree with that, but my first question would be this. What are we going to accomplish that we didn't accomplish with the review of the red meat sector that we did less than a year ago today? I just want to make sure we're going to get some very real results out of this that he has envisioned.
Second, our farmers want to be able to farm the markets. I was at the finance committee last night when we were talking about the changes to the Competition Act that are coming through our budget. These are things that we need to be looking at. If we move this up the schedule so we could all look at it at the same time and put forward some very real recommendations there and try to get some movement on that, I think it is a necessary step before we start talking about program reviews. But I would like to hear Mr. Easter's ideas of what we're going to accomplish with the cattle side by moving it up, because I'm not against that. I just want to know what we're looking at accomplishing there that we haven't already done in recommendations.
And then I would like to try to add my motion in there. Maybe it comes after the cattle discussion, but I think it should be up near the top somewhere so that we can actually start talking about some of the changes that have to be made so that our farmers can have better access to markets and more open markets.
The last thing I would like to say is on this product of Canada issue. André has expressed concerns all the way through the last year when we talked about it. I know André was one of the guys with me who said that 80% or 85% is where we should be, but I do think we do need to set the record straight, and Mr. Easter and the Liberal Party came out in print on May 21 and tried to steal the Prime Minister's announcement, calling it a Conservative announcement made by the Liberal's agriculture product policy. He's using hindsight to try to revisit history here, but I think there are more productive things we can be doing than partisan games at this point in time.
Other than attacking him on that, I would like to hear his input on the cattle side.