Mr. Speaker, the farm crisis in Canada is not over. Our food producers are struggling harder than ever to survive.
In my riding of Dauphin—Swan River, the Farm Credit Corporation is beginning to foreclose on farm accounts.
The government does not understand the value of the family farm or the value of our food producers to the economic wealth of the country.
The government does not understand that killing the family farm is the death knell for all rural communities of Canada.
How many of us in this Chamber would survive if our incomes had been slashed by up to 50% over the last three years?
Instead of helping the farmers by working together with provincial governments to come up with long term solutions, the federal government takes the easy way out and blames international subsidies.
It is low commodity prices that have created the crisis, not the farmer. I call on the government to do the right thing and help those who have fed us for over 100 years.