Mr. Speaker, I empathize with what the member is saying. I represent a rural riding and I understand, having visited a few of these trucking companies and agricultural producers last week. However, they also understand that the demands being driven across this planet by developing countries far outpaces Canada. Look at the demand faced by China, by India and other growing countries. The demand that could be faced by China for cars only could outpace even the U.S. demand by 10 times very soon.
As I said before, to just wave our hands over this problem will not happen. However, I mentioned some of the things we were doing. When we look at a rural economy, everything in my economy, whether it be forestry, agriculture or manufactured goods, has to be moved by truck. There is no train. There is no rail any more because it was taken out many years ago.
We are trying to help these companies invest in trucking. We are also helping them with some of these initiatives, as they have taken on the auxiliary power units to lower their fuel costs. We have also undertaken incentives in R and D in the auto industry to help make cars much more competitive. Those all help our rural economy. At the end of the day, if we end up lowering demand in the other areas, it will help our rural economies.