Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member when he says that, since 1993 with the Liberal government, agriculture has deteriorated down to the point where we have negative realized net income in the country across the agricultural sectors.
Including Quebec, every province of the country has a lot of dairy. Quebec is the biggest by far. With regard to zoning, the member should know that Quebec has imported hundreds of thousands of head of feeder beef cattle from western Canada over the past few years to put into their feedlots There is a lot of interaction there. I also note that Quebec has sent out a lot of dairy cattle to be killed in the packing plants of Alberta.
There is this interaction and zoning is tough to do when there is that kind of interaction of beef cattle. Quebec is a great exporter of beef on the international scene, exporting 8% of Canada's total. Quebec is very important to the beef industry of Canada.
I would like to ask the member to comment on whether or not this is in fact true, that cattle are moving across the country and that it is difficult to zone one province off from the others?