Mr. Speaker, that was a glowing account of what the government has done but what we were hoping for today were new ideas. However we did not get any.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that the government recognized “heartache and economic stress faced by our producers in this country”. That is wonderful but to that very end, ranchers and feedlot owners in Alberta launched a chapter 11 challenge some months ago and sued to get back some $350 million that they felt had been wrongfully taken from them by the Americans in the way this was being handled down there.
The government has kind of given that a pass. It was asked to help with the financing of that or to launch a parallel chapter 20 that would be government to government to try to expedite some of these files but the government of the day refused to do either one. Why?