Mr. Speaker, I do not know why the hon. member keeps bringing this up all the time. He only embarrasses himself and his party. When we took government, the Government of Canada was taking in $120 billion a year. That member's government spent $162 billion a year. Someone had to take hold of the finances of the country because his government had put it into bankruptcy. Someone had to put it back. When we got it back in line, and there is no question that we did, we did it through the contributions of all Canadians.
Over the last five years $7.1 billion has gone into support and safety nets for Canadian farmers.
The member asks why our system is different than the United States. It is because our constitution says that it is a shared jurisdiction. If the hon. member wants to change the proportions, a shared jurisdiction would be 50:50. If he wants to talk to the provinces about a 50:50 split, I am for it. We, as a federal government, have said that we will go to a 60:40 split. It is a shared jurisdiction.
As we strengthen this industry in every way possible, the individual producers, the provincial governments, the consumers of Canada and the federal government will all benefit. The biggest beneficiaries are the consumers because our industry provides them with the safest, highest quality food of any country in the world. We need to work collectively to continue to provide that to our Canadian consumers.