Mr. Speaker, I would have hoped the hon. member would have told those young people that the surplus was not $7 billion. It is nowhere near that. I also would have hoped the hon. member would have told them about the response the Government of Canada has had to this issue.
We heard the hon. member say that $100 million or so has been stolen. We heard that about the $1 billion boondoggle. The opposition members claimed that at the end of the day a $1 billion went missing. Does anyone know how much went missing? It was $6,500. I could not believe it myself.
Day after day we sit in the House and listen to the responses that come from the hon. members and they have absolutely nothing to add to the debate, except to sit there and scream and yell and call into shame the names of hon. members. These members say absolutely nothing. They have no new evidence. All they do is call Liberals and hon. members names.
I hope the hon. member told these young Canadian farmers that what they were hearing from the opposition was not true.
I also hope he told those young Canadian farmers that through the agricultural policy framework, the Canadian government has recognized that we need to do more to encourage young people to get into farming.
If we were to look at the age group that is farming today, we would see that it has been rising over the last number of years. Young people are not getting into farming. We must do more to encourage young Canadians to take up farming or at the end of the day we will have no more farmers.
I would ask all members in the House to let all Canadians know that the Government of Canada has responded to the needs of young Canadian farmers.