Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate members from all sides of this House who came together in an agriculture committee this week.
This committee, which I chair, deals with a very important issue called BST which is bovine somatotropin. It is an issue that divided a number of members who had a number of different views. However, for the first time since I have been in this House we had a committee that worked across party lines and came up with what I believe to be some very concrete recommendations to this government.
Mr. Speaker, as you know, the rules in this House have been changed to allow all committees more say in their agenda and the setting of their agenda and more power in making stronger recommendations to government.
I thank the Prime Minister and the leaders of all parties for giving individual members of Parliament more powers through our committees and more ability to work together in this House.