Mr. Speaker, I just met with Roger Bergrand and John Germs, hog producers from Saskatchewan who were in tears. Both farmers will be bankrupt by March. They cannot afford to feed their baby pigs, and talk among hog farmers is not about the weather this winter but about whether diesel or gasoline fumes are the cheapest way to kill their pigs. It is clearly a desperate situation. John and Roger are right there in the gallery—
In the House of Commons on November 27th, 1998. See this statement in context.