Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest the hon. member's speech on Bill C-86. There was a point I found particularly interesting, and I would like the hon. member to clarify, because I know very well that the farmers' problem is not producing milk but producing just enough to fill their quota.
If farmers were told to raise their quota by 5 per cent this year, they would be very happy. The problem is that they have to produce, say, 10 000 hectolitres of milk, but if they produce more than that they are fined, and if they produce less their quota will be reduced in the following years because-bad boys, bad girls-they cannot fulfil their commitments. So much so that people often joke and compare cows, as the hon. member for Lotbinière did yesterday, to gas pumps that have not been fixed. With gasoline, once the exact number of hectolitres has been
pumped into the tank, the pump is turned off, and the customer waits until tomorrow or the next year. But one can hardly do that with cows.
Therefore our problem is not to produce more, because milk production could easily be increased by 5 per cent a year. What I want to ask about is the 1.7 per cent of our milk production which was exported to the United States last year or in 1993-94. I would like the hon. member to tell the House what province this 1.7 per cent came from and in what form it was exported.