Mr. Speaker, the hon. gentleman knows that he is not reflecting accurately the meeting on the date to which he refers.
What the Prime Minister did say on that occasion, if I remember it correctly, are words to the effect that: "no fundamental change in the Canadian Wheat Board would be undertaken or contemplated without the benefit of some kind of producer consultation.
If the hon. gentleman recalls correctly, at that time the previous government was very much in the process of fundamentally altering the Canadian Wheat Board without the necessary legal authority to do it.
We have put in place a consultative process through the western grain marketing panel, which is now completing its work. I expect to have its report before the end of June. Once that report is available for all to review and scrutinize, we will all have a more thorough, thoughtful and factual basis on which to make any future decisions that are required.