--in terms of how we're moving ahead with our trade and why some of these motions in terms of trade and moving and getting some of the issues around COOL, for example, resolved. It is important that our Prime Minister is actually getting the answers and getting the calls from the President.
At any rate, aside from that, I should go back to the motion debate. I don't know how and I don't know why the opposition parties are saying, “Well, you know, just because now we've got another event of the day right now....”
I don't think anybody is saying that the concerns around Roundup Ready alfalfa won't be a concern at the time. But I go back; as my colleague said, they authorized Roundup Ready alfalfa in 2005. This is now March of 2011, and I don't know just what the big emergency is to put a moratorium on it.
Well, I do know, because they're in the opportune position, Mr. Chair, to call an election. He wants to get out all the information he can that would help support him and say how bad Roundup Ready alfalfa is, and yet he was in the Liberal government and was the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Agriculture who actually authorized it.