Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to the member who seems to know a bit about Reform policy. She should know if she listened to my speech that I did give a definition of what dual marketing was and I gave examples of how dual marketing had worked, but obviously she did not listen.
In resolutions passed at our recent assembly in Vancouver, 91 per cent of our voting delegates voted in favour of marketing choice, in others words dual marketing.
As well, there was overwhelming support for a resolution calling for final offer arbitration in settling these labour disputes that effect the movement of grain to port. The member is not paying a whole lot of attention and is not coming with the facts into this debate.
She said Canadians demanded that the Canadian Wheat Board be established and thought that was wonderful, but she neglected to note that Alberta producers democratically demanded the right to market outside of the board and she ignored the wishes of those farmers.
She referred to the Kraft report as being some wonderful and reliable document when in fact it was funded by the Canadian Wheat Board and based on a private, secret information provided to that study group by the board. It does not have a whole lot of credibility.
She said her constituents are supportive of the Canadian Wheat Board. I wonder what kind of response she received from her constituents regarding the commissioner's high salary, which was recently released, and the immoral severance package, well over $250,000 over two years should they resign or retire from the board. Do her constituents support that? Does she think that if farmers want to market outside an agency that provides those kinds of exorbitant severance package to their commissioners, those benefits, they should have the right?