Mr. Speaker, I am really concerned about the quality of information the NDP caucus has been given. The member stands on a point of order on something completely inaccurate.
In 1943 the Wheat Board was made mandatory by order-in-council by the government for two reasons.
The first was because the price of grain was rising too high and it wanted to control inflation, so farmers were punished. Their grain prices were held down.
The second reason was that there needed to be a cheap source of grain provided to Europe for the war effort. It was taken from western Canada and shipped to Europe.
He probably does not know that following the war there was a four year agreement where farmers in western Canada provided their grain at $2 a bushel below world price so there was cheap grain supplied to England.
He does not know that in the late 1990s farmers went to jail because they wanted to market their own grain.
Those members need to know those points before they stand and talk about this issue.