Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank both my colleagues for their very eloquent speeches.
I would like to come back to the deplorable attitude of the Conservatives who are making these cuts, even while we are celebrating the International Year of Cooperatives.
Is this merely a case of a case of laziness or, as we have seen on a number of occasions on different issues, simple favouritism for private enterprise as a whole, as opposed to the interests of the co-operative movement for ordinary Canadians?