Mr. Speaker, I will begin by commenting on the last point the member made on creating a value added pasta plant for our durum wheat. The member has brought a new insight to me. I will give him an undertaking that I will take his point up with the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.
I do not know the issue well and there may be some technical points which make this not as easy as the member describes it. However, I think the member has raised a very insightful point. Any time we can create a value added opportunity with a resource like this we should look at it.
This goes back to the point I wanted to make. In the last nine months this government has taken on a very thorough review of all crown corporations. If they do not meet the public policy objective that we all believe in then a lot of those crown corporations have had their budgets cut, some of them severely. It would be inappropriate to leave Canadians with the impression that we are not reviewing and evaluating all crown corporations.
In fairness to the member, he did acknowledge that the Minister of Transport has done a very good job in commercializing all the airports in Canada, privatizing and offloading them to local authorities. Some would even argue that he is moving too fast. I know the Reform Party feels quite comfortable with that. However, I caution members opposite that when we are dealing with a complex department like transport, which traditionally has galvanized the spirit of this country and helps pull this country together because it deals with rail, transport and sea, before we just cut and offload it we have to make sure we are doing it in a manner that does not fracture the very fabric of the country.