Mr. Speaker, of course not. The point is that the government has been trying on this issue to have it all ways to Sunday and not to be clear with Canadians about where it wanted to go. We heard that in the answer that was given by the Prime Minister two weeks ago yesterday when he was asked the question about Potash and gave that flippant, dismissive response that said, “Who cares? It is just an Australian company trying to buy an American company and it really does not matter”.
The people of Saskatchewan took that as a personal insult. They knew it was factually wrong to start with but they were offended by the dismissive, back of the hand kind of approach that they saw from the Prime Minister. It also betrayed a bias on the Prime Minister's part that he was tending to go down the road of approving this transaction.
That galvanized public opinion in Saskatchewan and across the country. The ball really got rolling when Canadians said that they would need to stop this transaction because if they left it to the government, it would let it go.