Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The Canadian live cattle export industry, which is worth about two and a half billion dollars a year, is already being targeted by the Americans. Senator Baucus and his cohorts in the American agricultural lobby are rubbing their hands in glee at the possibility that they will be able to justify or rationalize a countervail based on Bill C-55.
Why is the minister so eager to sacrifice western Canadian farmers to the greater glory of Ted Rogers?