Mr. Speaker, the Western Grain Transportation Act was instituted in 1984. This loophole has been there for 12 years and the government knew about it. Why did it have to wait this long?
I would suggest that special interest groups had a lot to do with it because the railways were milking the system, the grain companies were milking the system, and the cow has gone dry. We have a debt problem and finally we are starting to realize it.
I would like to ask the hon. member why the government did not realize this faster when the problem was there 10 years ago.