Mr. Speaker, it is nice to see that the member can read another platform. It is too bad that they cannot put into place their own platforms right now to support agriculture.
What we did say emphatically is that there would be an amalgamation of a number of departments. The money saved from the administrative function of those departments, however, would go back to the people who really deserved it, the producers. That was the premise of that policy.
With respect to the hon. member's position as to whether subsidization should be stopped, times change. It is unfortunate that the government cannot deal with the change in what is going on around us right now in the global economy. Those negotiations were in place and subsidies were to be reduced from the EU and the U.S. It is not subsidies—