Madam Speaker, part of the answer lies in the answer I was giving to the member from the NDP. When the Crow rate disappeared, farmers in western Canada saw a big livestock industry being created with our feed grains being used on the prairies.
We are raising a lot of the hogs and cattle that were formerly being raised in Ontario and Quebec due to western Canada having the competitive advantage and eastern Canada having the advantage of the Crow rate to get our cheap feed grain. Now we have the packing plants and the production in the west, which is helping. Ontario and Quebec still have a lot of that production, which is also good.
With respect to the current farm income crisis, certainly the government should be supporting our farmers closer to the levels at which our foreign competitors, the U.S. and EU, are supporting theirs.