Madam Chair, I would like stay on the positive side here. I agree with the member's opening comments that we should try to remain non-partisan in take note debates in general. I think if officials are listening to good suggestions that come out of take note debates that is one of the benefits of them.
However I am not sure that it is fair for him to raise that. The speaker, two speakers before him, from the Conservative Party was very fair and non-partisan and made a very good speech. However the speaker after that just gave a whole list of very partisan misinformation, so that probably should not be the member raising that issue.
In relation to the second question, I do not want to comment on those who are criticizing Conservatives for not representing farmers.
I would just like to say that we are representing farmers. We supported supply management in the budget. We recently added $1 billion to our support for farmers. We are trying to do whatever we can. As I mentioned in my speech, four or five initiatives were taken specifically for dairy farmers until we can finish this round of negotiations in which I have a whole list of things, if someone wants to ask me, that we are trying to achieve for the farming sector, dairy farmers and other farmers, because of the damage that subsidies in other countries can do to us and indeed in other sectors. I am just trying to remain on the positive side.
It is good that a lot of the parties are supporting the farmers and, hopefully, together we can come up with the best way to support them and have a strong, united front in the negotiations. At the end of the negotiations, we still have remedies that we can use but let us maintain our credibility and leadership through these negotiations and still try to achieve as much as we can with these irritants that are hurting our trade.