Thank you, Chair.
I don't think it's as cut and dried as the opposition is making it. In fact, Mr. Laurent Pellerin was in front of us and he said:
As a farmer, I don't think we are expecting return on this $31.70, especially on the cow-calf and finished beef.
This is testimony that came from the committee, and I think there are a range of solutions.
I just want to read into the record what it was that we passed right after our witnesses came. Mr. Easter doesn't appreciate the fact that the motion I put forward was a direct result of having heard these witnesses, actually having listened to them.
For example, my motion said:
That the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, after hearing witness testimony concerning specified risk material, would like to encourage the government to work with industry to find solutions to existing irritants.
I'll have to bring up a point here. The last time the Liberal government moved money towards cattle producers, it was a fiasco, a complete fiasco. Even they had to conduct a study, or not even a study, because they didn't even know where the money went. They had to actually review all of their processes and procedures to figure out where the money went. What they realized was that the money went to the wrong place. The money did not arrive--