moved:
Motion No. 6
That Bill C-51, in Clause 25, be amended
(a) by replacing line 16, on page 12, with the following:
"84. (1) Except with the written permission of";
(b) by adding after line 24, on page 12, the following:
"(2) Except with the written permission of the Commission or in accordance with prescribed terms and conditions, no public carrier shall transport grain unless it has first been weighed, the dockage established and the quality designated."
Mr. Speaker, technically this motion divides what is now section 84 in the act. The bill we have in front of us proposes to amend section 84 in the act into subsections (1) and (2). In clause 25 of the bill before us now it would become subsection 84(1) and we would add a subsection (2) which would read:
(2) Except with the written permission of the commission or in accordance with the prescribed terms and conditions, no public carrier shall transport grain unless it has first been weighed, the dockage established and the quality designated.
There are two reasons for this. One is to make it easier to track grains that might be subject to bankruptcy procedure and as well to look forward to the new technology which is now being introduced into western Canada. It is the portable elevator which is a very large tandem truck with two units behind it. It has the ability to weigh grain as it goes in. The truck driver does the dockage testing and provides a grade. It makes certain that particular process which some companies are now engaged in is done in a way that provides the kind of paperwork transactions that will protect the producer.
The prospect of watching 2,000 bushels of flax or peas walk off the farm maybe to disappear without the proper paperwork in the event that particular grain dealer turns out to not have been properly bonded is not one a farmer looks forward to. This attempts to address that by requiring these kinds of operations to do the same paperwork as elevators do.