Mr. Speaker, last week the minister ignored the concerns of major farm organizations that called his agristability program a failure. Now, Canada's major farm paper, The Western Producer, in its editorial states:
Budget misses the mark in helping ag. sector.
It adds:
For the first time in 31 budgets, the March 4 version contained no additional money for agriculture.
With the livestock sector in crisis, why does the minister continue to ignore advice by and for farmers?