Madam Chair, this affects not only people directly involved in the animal industry. My colleague is absolutely right about the organic industry. This also impacts sport hunters. It impacts the goat industry, but we never believed that it should because there is absolutely no science behind that. This impacts the grain industry, which I am also a part of. It impacts the trucking industry and all of the by-product industries, all of the dealers. Every primary job that is lost in agriculture has a seven to one spinoff. The repercussions of what happens when a farmer loses is devastating.
We must understand that we are talking not just about the agriculture industry but about the whole base of an economy in many of our provinces. They are fundamental, primary industries. If we do not do something about it, if we do not recognize that it is absolutely imperative that the government stand up in this crisis, then we will never recover from it.
This should not be a take note debate. This is an emergency debate for an emergency situation. There is no time to sit around and talk about it. It is time for action.