Mr. Speaker, I again express my amazement that the party that talks about grassroots consultation is opposed to consultation. There is a bit of a contradiction there.
I remind the hon. member, as I did yesterday, that program payments through a number of programs, including the spring cash advance, interest free money to farmers, the NISA program, the crop insurance program and other programs, between the federal and provincial governments last year, $3.7 billion went into supporting the primary producers in this country. That is a significant amount of money for that support.