With Mexico? I would like to see it. We have a trade deficit. Mexico has its trade surplus. I am afraid that the Liberals are completely lost in the dust and they have even lost the field. They are somewhere in the neighbour's. When they cannot take Statistics Canada figures and read them that shows what is happening. Something is wrong.
I will give the hon. minister a minute to look at that and see whether my eyes are that bad or whether I am that old that I cannot see what a surplus or a deficit is. While he is looking at that, I would like to talk about another item, the Churchill issue.
This is what Mr. Allen said about a boatload of grain to Mexico. Tell me whether we are giving it a bad deal or not. We had a 25-tonne vessel going to Mexico in November 1994. The Mexicans bought number three red wheat. We loaded 9,000 tonnes of number one red, 5,000 tonnes of number two red and the balance, which was less than half the cargo, was number three red which they bought. I would sure like to throw a trade action against the partner that gives me number one wheat instead of number three.
Where does the trading sense of this government come in? It amazes me that these things go on and we sit idly and say everything is good in this country, we are only $540 billion in debt, so why not a few hundred billion more?
I look at Bill C-66 and look at three little clauses that took a lawyer a whole year to draw up, that has cost us $50 billion in backtracking costs, delayed cars for I do not know how many days. We are behind in canola shipments months and we are still doing a great job? Why do we not pat each other on the back?
I went up to Churchill last July. I wanted to see how efficiently the agriculture department was running everything. I was there the last day in July. There was a ship coming in that wanted to load 40,000 tonnes of grain and there were 4,000 tonnes in that whole terminal, five million bushels. That is performance?
We have ships sitting for three weeks waiting to pick up grain out of Churchill, of all places, where nobody wants to buy grain from. That is performance and I am supposed to be quiet here and sit silently by and let these things go on and pat hon. members across the way on the back?
I am sorry, hon. members, I was elected to start things moving in this House. I hope I can accomplish that. I hear giggles and I hear screams. They must be listening so I must be accomplishing something. We will have to paint these ships a faded red so that they will start getting a little more action into their process and loaded a little faster.
I went over to Robert's Bank when I was in Vancouver and I saw a 150,000 tonne coal ship loaded within a day. Then I saw what the consequences were. That company paid the terminal $5,000 to load that ship within the three-day limit. We wait 27 days to load a ship with grain. We have a tremendous system going for us. I cannot comprehend the amount of stress, disappointment and disillusionment in the farm community with this kind of system.
For 10 years now the WGTA has held the railway system and the grain companies hostage so that the system cannot be revamped. The Minister of Transport said the United States railway system is 64 per cent more efficient as far as labour is concerned. Are we doing a tremendous job in Canada? When are we going to face the facts? When are we going to take charge of these problems and do something?