Mr. Speaker, of course the task force those members are talking about was a Liberal Party task force. As its fortunes in rural Canada dived down, it decided to go out and do some damage control by consulting with some farm groups.
I would like the member to explain to us why, of all the farm groups and provincial governments that his party spoke to, not one supported the APF magic bullet that the minister and his government came up with? Not one supported the CAIS program and the business risk side of that.
If those members actually did their job as a task force and came up with that misdirected malpractice suit in waiting, how can the member stand in his place today and say they actually heard what producers were saying? When pen met paper, not one producer group and not one province supported that initiative. How can he stand there and defend that?