Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Once again, we spent a great deal of time in the last Parliament looking at this issue. This is something everybody agreed on.
This is, once again, revisionist history by Mr. Easter, coming forward with this. I could table his press release of May 21, 2008. The headline is, “Conservatives Announce Made-by-Liberals Ag Product Policy”. I mean, they're out there, busy trying to steal the credit for this stuff when we announce it, and then they come back six months or a year later and say they think it's gone too far.
The fact of the matter is that we need to let the changes that were just made continue to move forward. The agriculture committee put a very extensive report out on this already. I think what we need to do....
It's not that this isn't important. It's not that we shouldn't look at this in the future. It's just that right now we have had witnesses, all the way from the NFU to the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, come forward and tell us we need to look at the competitiveness of our red meat sector; we need to look at the issues of competition that have been brought forward; we need to look at regulatory issues. I think these are the things on which we need to be putting priority, moving forward and putting aside the political partisan games that Mr. Easter continues to bring up.