Mr. Speaker, I have a very brief comment to make. We are now seeing from the Canadian Alliance something to which western farmers had better pay attention. It wants to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board. It is also saying that it wants it opened up to competition to allow the Cargills of the world to get involved.
It is a matter of time before the wheat board disappears. The wheat board only succeeds if it is single desk marketing agency for Canadian grain. That is the way farmers in western feel. There is very strong support for the Canadian Wheat Board as a single desk marketing agency.
The Reform Party of Canada wants to destroy that agency for the farmers of western Canada. Western Canadian farmers had better realize that we have a throwback to the age of the dinosaurs and Neanderthals. They are coming out of their cage and they want to end the Canadian Wheat Board.
Canadian farmers fought for that year in and year out. They fought for it in the 1930s and 1940s. They fought to defend it against the forces of the extreme right. Those forces are now coming to the fore again. As a matter a fact there was a plebiscite on barley some time ago and over two-thirds of farmers wanted to market barley through the Canadian Wheat Board. What did the reform party do? It criticized farmers for supporting the Canadian Wheat Board.