Mr. Speaker, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the parliamentary secretary.
He indicated that everyone is coming to Ottawa. He hoped that the provincial premiers would get out of their houses and come to Ottawa.
I do not see very much farming going on inside the House of Commons today. If the Liberal government wishes to know exactly what is going on in farming communities across the country, not just in the prairies, the meeting should be held in Strasbourg, Saskatchewan or in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia.
The ignorance of the problem by the government and the arrogance of the minister of agriculture toward the farmers is absolutely appalling.
In the last parliament the government brought in Bill C-101, the deregulation of transport. It also privatized CN and eliminated the Crow rate. These were all supported by the Reform Party.
The government must have known that when we download these responsibilities to the farmers, their income is going to drop rapidly and that is one of the major reasons why we have such a crisis today.
I thank the hon. member for mentioning the word crisis because we have not heard that from the minister of agriculture yet.