Mr. Speaker, I was very pleased to see that the member from Toronto recognized the important contribution made by farmers to the food supply, which is safe and certainly among the best in the world. I was also pleased to hear his idea on how to get city people to recognize the input of farmers. I really appreciate that and think it is a good idea, but it still does not deal with these severe, critical problems that we have.
It does not deal with pushing European countries and putting pressure on Asian countries to remove or reduce their import restrictions. It does nothing to pressure the United States to reduce its unfair subsidies which make it very difficult for our farmers to compete because they are not competing on a level playing field. They are competing against just too many odds. Our farmers have become so efficient that they can compete against an awful lot of odds that one would think they just would not be able to deal with, but they can.
The Liberals have not dealt with the tax problem other than making it worse. They have not dealt with the restrictions on farmers to develop more options for markets except by making it worse. They have made things worse rather than improving them.