Mr. Speaker, I am very surprised actually because David Orchard espouses the policies of the NDP. It is nice to see that the hon. member would support Joe Clark, as I have done right from the beginning.
I do not like to refer to it as emergency aid. As the minister has rightfully said, we do not want ad hoc programs. We have always said in this party that what we need is a crisis program, a natural disaster program to deal with crises, the ice storm, the Red River flooding, the commodity crisis in the marketplace right now. Yes, we need a program in place to provide the necessary financial resources for farmers to put in the spring crop. I cannot say that any more emphatically. That is what we would support and I would be more than happy to put our vote on the table.
David Orchard, fortunately for our purposes, will not be in our party much longer. I am sure he will be embraced by his previous party, the NDP.