Mr. Speaker, I want to take a look at some things that have happened since 1993.
In the agricultural industry in my riding and in other parts of western Canada farmers are piling grain on the ground. Their bins are full. They have no place to put it. They cannot move it. About 40% of farmers are considering bankruptcy at this very moment.
This morning there are about 166,000 out of every million children who are going to school hungry. They are living in poverty. That is nearly three times as bad as it was in 1993.
The people on hundreds of reserves in this country are living in squalor. I have seen it with my own eyes. I know what is there.
We have a fishery problem that is going on now.
It is unbelievable that it would come to this, and all since 1993.
We have first degree cop killers, murderers, walking away from minimum security institutions. We have killers in minimum security institutions and this throne speech talks about the safety of Canadians as a top priority.
When we look at what is going on today and that which has occurred since 1993, I would suggest to the Canadian people throughout this land that this entire front row is filled with incompetent people, including the Prime Minister. How would the member respond to these tragedies that are happening today, right before her eyes?