Mr. Speaker, coming from B.C. the subject of grain is not a big issue in our area. However, I want to make a couple of comments to the member about some of his statements regarding his concern about the lack of grain or the decrease in grain passing through the St. Lawrence seaway.
Clearly the member realizes that there has been a huge market change in the demand for grain in the world. Europe, for example, has gone from a net importer to a net exporter of grain. This is a predominant factor in grain shipments throughout the east coast ports.
I sit in the House every day and listen to the members from the Bloc crying about how hard done by the province of Quebec is and how things are so tough and they are being penalized so much. The member should realize that for so many years the pendulum swung the other way toward the province of Quebec.
We talk about the supply management system. Today in the domestic market the province of Quebec enjoys a huge protectionist advantage for shipping things like cheese and milk products and some of the other items in the domestic market.
In our province, for example, because of the supply management system we are restricted to pretty much a local area for selling our product. The member is once more bringing up the hard done by Quebec issue and I think that his facts are not exactly correct.