Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has it wrong. I never said that Quebec is not worried about what is going on in the rest of Canada.
I am very worried about the farmers in my riding. When some of them get up in the morning, they do not know whether they will still have a farm to run that night.
What I am saying is that, since 1993, Quebec producers have banned the use of animal meal in cattle feed. They only use vegetarian feed. The single case of mad cow disease happened 5,000 km from our province. Quebec is farther from Alberta than France is from Great Britain. Yet, we are still penalized. Ontario and all the other provinces are being penalized because of this one cow.
If the government had put its foot down, I think we would not be in this terrible situation today and people from all across Canada would not be going bankrupt.