Mr. Chair, I have a couple of points. First, when the set aside is done, if there is no extra slaughter capacity or the border is not open, we will have exactly the same problem. It is almost as though the government is sort of hoping things will magically sort themselves out. If there is not some kind of new capacity or the border is not open, we will be back in the same situation. The government has absolutely no plans for what happens after the set aside is over.
Second, with respect to slaughter capacity and these forms, the member is playing semantics. It is a game of semantics. What the entrepreneurs were looking for were some guidelines. They wanted to know how to go about working with the government and the private lenders to bring about extra slaughter capacity in Canada. I know the member knows that when we talk to people on the ground, they say the number one issue is more slaughter capacity. For 18 months people have been talking about how we need more slaughter capacity and it is not happening. Why do we not have some tax incentives to encourage slaughter capacity?
The member asked where the new ideas were. What about some tax incentives to encourage that? What about a five year averaging program so when people have these fluctuations in their income, when they have to dispose of their herds, there is some way to ensure that it is not all taxed away and that they have the capacity to rebuild their herds? What about those for ideas? Why is the government not producing some new ideas so we can actually get the industry back on its feet?