Mr. Speaker, it is unbelievable the lack of knowledge the hon. member has and his inability to look at information when it is available to him.
He just stated that not one cheque has been cashed. Over 5,000 applications have come in from across Canada and nearly 2,500 cheques have been sent out. My guess is that they have been cashed because we know the farmers need the money.
If the member would take his energy in opposing the AIDA program and use it to encourage producers to send in their applications maybe more of the 25,000 applications would be sent in so that we could deal with them. We are sending out cheques.