Mr. Speaker, the people in my Ontario riding of Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke are also in a desperate situation. The president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture called me the other day saying that the auction barn was a very dismal place and that people were having to reach into their pockets to pay the commission fees because after selling their animals there was no money left over. He said that people were at the point of having to shoot their cattle but that they had no place to bury them.
Knowing that my colleague's producers are in the same situation, I wonder if he could tell me what his producers are doing to get rid of the animals they have had to shoot because they have no food left to feed them.