Mr. Speaker, there has been an awful lot of talk and a lot of studies. Even the parliamentary secretary for agriculture is involved in one of these studies. However, there has been very little action.
The little action the government has taken has been backward in some respects, forced upon it by the earlier government, for example in the case of GATT. We are dealing with the consequences from GATT. I am not sure or convinced that this agreement was advantageous for farmers in Canada.
I think we broke in, we broke down, we did not negotiate fully or effectively. Now we are caught in a situation in which we are having to give away an agricultural system, the supply management system, which was an excellent system, the world's best system. We are forced to give it away.
The agricultural community which was directly under the supply management program now is forced to readapt very quickly, in six years, for example. This is not an advantage to those farmers. Farming is not like producing dingy bells or post cards. You do not change agriculture from one day to the next. You need long term planning and structural investment. You have to know where you are going and this government does not seem to know where it is going.