Actually I have no problem, Mr. Speaker, responding to that question.
In the United States and even in Australia where there is a triple-E senate the agricultural industry has much more clout in decision making at a national or federal level.
If we look at states such as Iowa, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota where there are two elected senators representing those states, the same number as Texas, New York and California, we realize that our Senate which is appointed-and we saw the type of appointments, always patronage appointments with no responsibility to the people they are supposed to represent-certainly is not likely to be very interested in agriculture. It handicaps the more sparsely populated regions of the country which tend to be agricultural regions.