Mr. Speaker, my understanding is that the mandate of the Competition Bureau would have to be redrawn, because as it has said that there is nothing in its present mandate that prevents any company from making an exorbitant profit. Just because these companies do not see fit to lower the price because consumption has actually gone up, there is nothing the Competition Bureau can do. I think that will have to be addressed.
The second point I would make quickly on this is that anything like that will not help in the short term. It might solve the problem if we were to, God forbid, end up in a situation like this in the future to redraw some of that type of legislation.
I need to re-emphasize this as my last statement today. The fact is farmers need the help now. They needed it yesterday, not tomorrow and not today. It is crisis time.