Mr. Speaker, I was pleased today to table the first ever report to parliament on rural Canada called “Working Together in Rural Canada”.
It is part of our rural dialogue where we have engaged some 7,000 rural Canadians to tell us what their priorities are in rural Canada. This dialogue was continued this past weekend in Magog where we had an opportunity to bring in 500 rural Canadians from across Canada. In fact we had representatives from all political parties, except the Canadian Alliance which did not show up.
Quite frankly, rural Canadians themselves are telling us what their priorities are. The report indicates how we are responding. I look forward to the comments from rural Canadians and parliamentarians on that report.