Madam Speaker, the hon. member started by saying that it was a relationship of physics. I was wondering where he was going in terms of his physics lesson in the beginning.
In terms of the three last points he made including the feed freight assistance program, yes, they were cut in the previous budgets, but the fact is that we paid funds to compensate producers. Now they have been able to build some additional industries because of the money we put into those areas including his home province of Quebec.
The dairy subsidy is one of the benefits, and he knows it, of the supply management system in Canada. When that subsidy was dropped over a period of time, farmers were still able to get a return on their cost of production plus a fair return on their labour investment. He should look at the number of dairy producers in his home province of Quebec that benefit from that kind of scheme.
In terms of his point on research, the fact is that with our matching initiatives we have been able to considerably increase the funding going into research.
If the member would have held meetings in his home province in terms of how much Canada as a nation was transferring to Quebec, he might have seen some better discussions in terms of those meetings.