Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate those comments.
I talk for about 20 seconds and get interrupted. It's difficult to move forward without being able to get into anything in depth. I think for the amount of time I've been here, I've had three or four interventions and I have not been able to get into what I wanted to. That's made it really difficult. Obviously, that's a strategy here today, and that's fair enough. I think as we're discussing this, one has to be given the opportunity to go into the details of what their rationale is and set the tone, and it's difficult to do that when you talk for 20 or 30 seconds and get interrupted. That makes it much more difficult to be able to carry on the conversation.
Talking about Ukraine and how this fits into the amendment and the subamendment and part of this discussion, if we can't talk about the price of gas and how that all fits in, I'll move on to another topic. I was setting the tone.
What I'd like to bring up is the price of wheat in Ukraine, because that is one of the important topics right now. We're talking about food security and, as we're looking at the study and all of the amendments, how important this topic is.
Again, I'll bring out the example to set the tone here. I'll point to a conversation that happened on March 3 in the House. There was a question in the House of Commons asked by my colleague from Foothills. He asked:
Mr. Speaker, Europe, Asia and Africa all rely on corn and wheat from Ukraine, the region's breadbasket. With Russia's invasion, a global food crisis is emerging. The United Nations has already warned of catastrophic hunger and hundreds of millions are facing famine.
Canada can help. We have a crippled supply chain, punishing carbon taxes, a looming rail strike and PEI farmers are being forced to destroy millions of pounds of potatoes. In a global food crisis, when Canadian farmers want to help, why is this Liberal government neglecting Canadian agriculture?
The response from the member for Vancouver South was:
Mr. Speaker, at a time of crisis like this, I completely agree that Ukraine does supply the developing world with wheat. This crisis is going to be extremely serious. I have been at the UN speaking with the heads of the world food program and other organizations and Canada can play a very important role in this. We will work with our counterparts on how we can provide—