Mr. Speaker, that was quite an interesting departmental speech handed to the member so he could just rattle off a bunch of things that have absolutely no impact on what is happening here in Canada today.
There is a farm income crisis and this parliamentary secretary does not even seem to notice that. He talks about farmers having money to buy combines. They do not have money to put food on the table. When he is going to wake up?
When is the government going to wake up and address some real problems like input taxes that farmers are paying and by developing a real AIDA program where the money gets off the cabinet table and is delivered to farmers to help them out at this crucial time? When is it going to fight high foreign subsidies by the Europeans and Americans that will have a real impact on farmers in our country?