Madam Chair, the member opposite is certainly mixing a lot of different issues. Personally I am not aware of any slaughter house that received a subsidy. Under the former Liberal government program, it would have to go broke in order to trigger some money. That is what the Liberals put forward during the BSE crisis, which was not helpful to anyone. It did back stop the banks, which maybe was the intention of the Liberals all along. I do not know.
We are looking very seriously at slaughter capacity across our great country. We will work hand in hand with Levinoff-Colbex to make sure it stays alive. It serves a tremendous area in Quebec and eastern Canada. It deserves every chance to maintain what it is doing.
There is a little side issue that happened when we, as a government, worked hard to get Rule 2 into the United States. That means cattle over 30 months had access to the border south and that drove the price up, and this is affecting it.