Mr. Speaker, I believe the question refers to the backtracking that has been occurring for several years and was pointed out to the minister very clearly a year ago. Backtracking involves grain being shipped under the subsidized rate to Thunder Bay and then going back at the full market rate. It makes no sense.
As my colleague mentioned before, it costs Canadian taxpayers between $15 million and $40 million a year. It is absurd. It should not be happening. Why could the minister of agriculture not say it will not happen any more within a month of when he found out it was happening? Why? There is no good answer for it. It should have happened.
The minister himself is backtracking. Originally he said that the backtracking would cease to exist on January 1. Now he has put it off until the end of July, to the new crop year.
Certainly there are some problems with contracts that were made before this problem was widely recognized but those should be dealt with directly and backtracking should have ceased long ago.