Mr. Speaker, this is not the first time that we hear about a lack of money in agriculture. I say a lack of money because, when I was a little girl, my grandfather had 119 acres of land. I bought this land afterwards, in the 1980s, and I farmed it for a few years. In addition to a woodlot, part of it was used for livestock and another for crops.
I come from the Mascouche, Terrebonne and Saint-Roch region. On these lands, there are now practically no woodlots, but there are pigs, beef and cows. When I was a little girl, people in my region were on the side of Maurice Duplessis. Why? Because Maurice Duplessis was fighting for Quebec's farmers. From the time that he was there, we would hear farmers saying, “Ottawa does not think about us”.
If the federal government was thinking about Quebec's farmers, it would not have attempted to close the school of veterinary medicine in Saint-Hyacinthe, because it would have wanted to help our farmers. It would also get going on the supply management issue. Then, it would pay attention to our maple syrup producers—