Mr. Speaker, my colleague demonstrates the passion with which some of us view this issue. He is very correct.
As I said in my presentation, I am the third generation on my family farm. When my grandfather arrived in this country he just barely settled on the farm and had to face the depression of the thirties. That pattern has repeated and repeated itself and every time the government came up with some emergency measure and promised a long term whole farm program of some sort to deal with the problems in agriculture, the cyclical nature of prices. Every time it has failed to do so.
We are asking the government to live up to the commitment it made in the election campaign and sit down with the stakeholders in this business to develop a long term whole farm program that will work, not to continue with ad hoc emergency programs that it keeps coming up with.