Mr. Speaker, earlier on you talked about relevance. We have been into poultry and now we are into potash. I thought we were talking about moving grain down into the United States and Mexico.
The member's comment was that by stopping this movement of grain back and forth from Thunder Bay it was going to eliminate the countervailing duty investigation by Mexico. I ask myself, how on earth can we do this to ourselves? How can we pay to move grain to Thunder Bay, move it back to the prairies on subsidized lines and find out that because we do that Mexico is going to investigate us for subsidizing grain? Whereas if we stop shooting ourselves in the foot there is no subsidy and we can put it down to the United States more efficiently, as they admit, in a more timely fashion, as they admit, and the whole market system would just work so much better.
I cannot imagine why the government is trying to mess up the whole market system entirely through these rules which just make no sense whatsoever. I still come back to this concept of why it takes so long. I thought when this bill was passed that it would come into force. Now I find out it will not be until August 1.
Can the member please explain to me why it is going to take another six or eight months before it comes into effect? Why would we subsidize grain that-I am at a loss for words, but I want to know why we are going to wait until August.