Mr. Speaker, a brief comment and a short question.
The comment is with regard to the Deloitte & Touche report to which the parliamentary secretary referred. He said that all the recommendations have been fulfilled. In fact that is incorrect. One of the recommendations dealt with the structure of the board and
the fact that it had five equal commissioners. Deloitte & Touche called it a 1930s structure that does not work in the 1990s. That is still in place and cannot be touched until the Canadian Wheat Board Act is amended.
My question is for the hon. member from Ontario. We have not had one prairie farmer from the Liberal side speak yet. I think they only have one farmer.
Ontario corn producers can sell their product to whomever they choose. They can sell it across the line. They can load their trucks, go across the border into the states and sell their corn, or sell it domestically or export it around the world. But barley growers who are producing an equivalent product in western Canada do not have that same privilege.
Does the hon. member think it is fair that corn producers can market to whomever they wish but prairie barley producers are not allowed to do that because of the Canadian Wheat Board Act?