Mr. Speaker, the minister is obviously not listening. I have a letter from a 14 year old girl in Carragana, Saskatchewan. She is saying that nobody in parliament is listening to her on the farm crisis.
I wonder if the minister could answer my question directly as to whether or not there will be an extra $1 billion going to hard pressed farmers on the prairies. This is the worse farm crisis we have had since the 1930s. Could the minister answer that question directly? Would he screw up his courage and come out to the prairies to see for himself the severity of the crisis?