Madam Speaker, it is with great interest that I wanted to speak to Bill C-36, particularly with regard to the millennium scholarship fund. There are many reasons for this: first, because I am a father; second, because I worked in the area of education; and third, to show that, once again, we are duplicating structures.
I will always remember the farmer who, in 1970, convinced me to join in the fight for Quebec's sovereignty. He lived on concession 7 in a small community in my riding. His argument was quite simple.
“Jean-Guy, take a good look in my barn”. He had a magnificent herd of Ayrshire cows. That dairy farmer had a mixed quota: 50% fluid milk and 50% industrial milk. The part of a cow's production used for industrial milk was under federal jurisdiction, whereas the part used for fluid milk, the kind we drink every day, was, and still is, under Quebec's jurisdiction.
For the same cow, two agriculture ministers: one for industrial milk and one for fluid milk. All that for the same dairy producer—