Mr. Speaker, the member for Souris Mountain asked where was the NDP in all this. I can assure the hon. member that when farmers are in trouble or anyone in this country is in trouble they can always count on the NDP provincially and federally for support.
In the last parliament it was not the New Democratic Party that voted for the privatization of CN. It was not the New Democratic Party that voted for the privatization of our transportation system in Bill C-101. It was not the NDP that voted for the dismantling of the Crow rate. It was not the New Democratic Party that laid the burden on farmers for the transportation problems right across the country.
The government and the Reform Party must have known that when we download that kind of financial responsibility on the farmers they are going to have problems down the road. Would the member not agree that because we do not have a national agricultural policy that is one of the major reasons why we are in such trouble today?