Madam Speaker, what cattle owners in my riding are getting paid for culled cows now is what they were getting paid in the 1980s, yet what are their input costs? Compare the price of diesel in the 1980s to today, and the price of food and then this tax is added.
The government shows no interest in farmers. It will crush them with this tax. I would also like to mention first nations. First nation treaty rights are a federal obligation, and the Liberal Party members seem to think that they can walk away on that and the federal Conservatives think they can walk away on it. In a region like mine, where we have cattle farmers, where we almost lost our pork industry, where we have lots of first nations, these people will be taking it right on the chin for the political expediency of the Prime Minister and the Liberal leader from Harvard.