Mr. Speaker, I have a very straightforward question for the Minister of the Environment. He knows that the Americans have put an extra $73 billion in their farm bill, and now it is $180 billion. It is devastating for our farmers and devastating for our economy.
We now have a surplus in the federal budget estimated at being between $7 billion and $10 billion. Would the minister be in favour of spending $1.3 billion of that, as the ministers at the provincial level are asking for, in order to help farmers in this time of crisis? I ask the minister that, not the parliamentary secretary.