Mr. Speaker, the Alberta's minister of agriculture has just announced a proposal to buy farmers' grain for a dollar a load and to sell it back to them in the United States for a dollar a load, all this to get around the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. This would earn an extra $2,500 a truckload for cash strapped farmers struggling to cope with increased costs of planting.
Alberta farmers decided in a plebiscite that they wanted the freedom to market their wheat and barley as they choose. Will the minister act immediately to honour farmers' wishes or will he continue to rob farmers of the $2,500 a load, money so desperately needed for spring planting?