Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Liberal delegates at the Ottawa convention earlier this month who approved all resolutions boosting ethanol production. It is great to see grassroot Liberals showing this leadership, but it should come as no surprise.
In 1991 the leader of the opposition and now our Prime Minister called on the Conservative government to introduce legislation supporting ethanol.
The historic ethanol plant announced for southern Ontario, the eighth largest in North America, will add $2.7 billion to Ontario's economy over 12 years. Even the city of Sarnia bid on the plant.
The U.S. is already planning 49 new ethanol plants.
Tens of thousands of area residents have signed petitions and written letters to our Prime Minister urging federal involvement in the Ontario plant.
Grassroot Canadians and Liberal delegates alike know we have a government for the people, not for the bureaucrats. The people are for ethanol.