moved for leave to introduce Bill C-266, an act respecting the orderly marketing of potatoes.
Mr. Speaker, this bill would have the effect of creating an agency to present a single desk selling organization for the marketing of Canadian produced potatoes. It proposes a marketing commission for Canadian potatoes in order to permit producers to market through a single desk selling agency for the pricing, marketing and grading of potatoes.
This process has been ongoing in Canada for more than 20 years. It has reached near fruition several times but has always been successfully blocked by the potato trade. I believe this process would avoid that. In fact it would permit producers to use single desk marketing.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)