Mr. Chair, that is a little hypocritical since the international report that we got seven months ago still has not been acted on. Brian Evans, the head of CFIA, wrote an article about a month ago saying, “Here are the five points that were recommended. We are studying them. We are working on them”.
Part of the problem is that according to my records we have sat in the House of Commons for 47 days since the first BSE outbreak, whereas the rest of the time we have been on a three month hiatus while the Liberals got their leadership and their party together. That is a direct insult to farmers. Why is the committee not re-struck? Now we are going to go into an early election and we still will not address the problem. We are going to ignore an industry to death as well as cash starve it.