Mr. Speaker, I question how well the hon. member listened. I did touch on some of the initiatives of this government. Certainly the YMCA partnering initiative is a major step in the right direction. That is not just offering employment opportunities, it is also offering training opportunities to provide youth with a better lifestyle down the road.
In so far as the agriculture community is concerned, one of the things that I have done in my riding, and I have certainly been vocal in caucus as well, is to open up lines of communication. The member seems to have his facts in error. There has been an increase in the last two years in farming income, certainly in our area.
With respect to opening lines of communication, I have over the summer had the opportunity to have the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food travel to our riding and meet with the farmers, the brokers, the average people out there; not just their OFA representatives, but the actual farmers.
I have taken the time this summer to travel throughout the riding and sit in on the Grey County Federation of Agriculture and the Simcoe County Federation of Agriculture meetings. I bring that communication back to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and I tell him how it has impacted.
We have a very unusual situation which is going to be a great reward for the farming and agricultural communities and that is the minister who is leading us into the next millennium. He is a farmer, very well educated in the field and he is being met with an excellent response. I am certainly a pipeline to this caucus and to this government on behalf of the farming community in my riding.