Mr. Speaker, the budget clearly demonstrates that we are handling transportation issues across this country in a way that is even handed and fair minded. We are dealing with all of those transportation programs in a consistent fashion, whether it be the WGTA in western Canada or the feed freight assistance program in various other parts of Canada or the maritime freight rates assistance program or the Atlantic region freight rate assistance program.
All of those transportation subsidies are in the process of being eliminated, and in every case there is an adjustment fund or a transition program being put in place to ease the adjustment from the old subsidized regime to a new economic order without the degree of subsidization that has existed in the past.
The compensation measures with respect to the WGTA are very explicitly laid out in the legislation that was dealt with at report stage yesterday. In addition to that-