Mr. Speaker, I listened to the speech by the Liberal member and heard a lot of rhetoric. What did the member suggest in terms of solutions? He suggested more, more, more. He did not say what. He did not say how. He just said more.
We are in a very serious situation. It is caused by many things including: the increasing dollar, which brings down the price immediately, 20% or more, from what it was about a year ago; an increase in input costs, a lot of it feed cost due to the grain sector finally getting decent prices; and low market prices.
Why are market prices low other than the dollar? They are low because there are too many animals in the market and too many animals being produced, in this case particularly in North America.
Those are the three things that have caused this perfect storm that is extremely unusual and has made things so difficult for farmers to deal with. The cattlemen and hog producers we are talking about are not just people out there somewhere. They are my neighbours, my friends and my constituents.
The member calls for more, but I would like the Liberal member to say specifically what he would do. His government had 13 years to fix these problems and it did not do it. I would like to ask the member specifically, what would he do to solve this problem?