Mr. Speaker, farmers are not dumb. Maybe a lawyer thinks they are, but farmers understand very well what the question was and what it meant.
The minister has been pinning all of his hopes on the Western Grain Marketing Panel. In a statement he has slammed the producer vote as being merely academic. He has no respect for farmers who democratically expressed a common sense position.
Why is the minister insulting the intelligence of farmers by thumbing his nose at the clear message he received from over 16,000 plebiscite participants, 16,000 voters?