Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question. Basically, the praise for this particular initiative rests not with the member for Provencher but with the Prairie Harvest farm group from Altona which came up with the idea.
I can only tell the member that the role of the Government of Canada throughout this whole process has been one of facilitator. These kinds of innovative ideas with respect to secondary processing of our natural resources, which the World Bank has just said that Canada is number two in the world, have been there for quite some time.
I want to point out our trade difficulties with the U.S. and the cap on durum wheat which was unfairly placed on us by the Americans. The Government of Canada responded to that unfair trade action by going through the office of the Prime Minister to the minister of agriculture and indeed the minister of western economic development to say: "Okay, if we cannot ship our durum over the border, let us be really smart and keep it in our own back yard. We will process it and sell it to Canadians and Americans".
The short answer of course to the parliamentary secretary is that the Prairie Harvest group out of Altona came up with an idea, approached the Government of Canada for some help and we were glad to act as a lever on this important project.