Mr. Speaker, I always enjoy hearing the hon. member for London-Middlesex talk about fairness in the country and in the budget. I remind him that during the election the government promised to keep article XI of the GATT negotiations. It had to break that promise. Fairness is fairness; it could not do much about it.
In the federal budget the government announced a three-year withdrawal of funding for genetic evaluation and milk recording programs because they were contrary to GATT. It seems to me the same week the U.S. government announced an additional $600 million of funding toward these programs. Is that fairness? Is that the type of protection the government is to give its dairy farmers?
I know we do not need subsidies, but surely to goodness there should be some fairness. Or, are government members trying to make sure they have a good supply of chocolate milk from the president? We could be running short of fairness and I am wondering how he would justify it.