Mr. Speaker, if the hon. member wants to talk about ministers of agriculture he should go back home to his own province of Manitoba which to date has not agreed to take part in this assistance to farmers and the 60:40 split. As it has known all along, it will have to participate if it wants Manitoba farmers to have the same support as the farmers in the other provinces of Canada.
I will tell the House again that the federal government will treat every farmer in Canada that meets the criteria, no matter what province they are in, exactly the same. If the provinces do not want to assist they will have to explain that—