Mr. Chair, I appreciate the member's comments. My concern is that I have heard those kinds of comments for quite a while now. Living in an agricultural area, my constituents have heard those kinds of comments: that we need to work together and that we need to be non-partisan. They understand that.
Generally speaking, I think that as members we do work in a non-partisan fashion, especially in committees. I am on the justice committee and we have been able to get some very important bills through the justice committee by working in a non-partisan fashion.
Unfortunately, when I tell my constituents about things that have been happening in the justice area, many of them of course want to know about farmers and what has happened for farmers, and quite frankly, they have not seen that kind of progress.
I am going to take the minister at his word that he is interested and working in a non-partisan fashion, but I think the time has come for the minister to demonstrate that he can actually produce results. I agree that on issues such as labelling it will help two or three per cent, but there need to be more substantive gains than that. It simply is not enough.
If the minister is actually looking for ideas, I know that my colleague, the agriculture critic, has made many suggestions, but they seem to fall on deaf ears. If the minister has a sleepless night, perhaps he could read the agriculture critic's comments and speeches. I am sure that will keep him going for a few hours in terms of positive suggestions. I mean that in all sincerity.
I want to thank the minister for being here tonight and for demonstrating that he is committed, verbally at least, to working together, but we want to see a little bit of action. Perhaps he should start by looking at some of the Conservative ideas. The Liberals have never been shy about stealing Conservative ideas when it promotes their political future, and quite frankly they should do it in terms of agriculture, even if it gets them a few more votes, if it helps our farmers.