Mr. Speaker, last year in the main estimates the budget of the department of agriculture was cut by $470 million. This year another $4 million has been cut from the agricultural budget.
Farmers have to deal with higher fuel and fertilizer costs, industry killing foreign subsidies, a major drought condition on the prairies and now they have to face a government that just does not care about them.
Will the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food stand up for farmers instead of allowing the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance to pull the financial rug out from underneath him?