Mr. Speaker, my question is for the minister of agriculture. Yesterday the minister told his counterparts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that they had to put up some money for the farm crisis themselves. That is like asking the farmers to pay for their own crisis as R.B. Bennett did in the 1930s.
The minister knows that in Saskatchewan there is a joint position of all parties in the farm groups asking for an additional $1 billion in emergency farm aid now, on top of what they already have from last year under AIDA.
Will the minister be forthcoming with that money since he took money out of the programs by eliminating the Crow a few years ago? How much money will come back to the farmers on the prairies?