Mr. Speaker, I wish to congratulate my colleague and neighbour of the riding of Champlain for the excellent speech he made on agriculture. He raised a point in which I have a particular interest and it is inspection. I have heard about that issue and the situation is worse than what I was told.
I would like to hear his comments, especially on the issue of impartiality that he raised. Are we to understand that inspection costs which were paid for impartially by the government in the public interest will from now on be paid for by producers, thereby placing the inspectors under the control of producers? If so, they will be at the mercy of people acting both as judge and as jury.
Does it mean that the public interest in that area will from now on be threatened by privatization which is expanding and perhaps being implemented drastically?