Mr. Speaker, there is a lot to his questions. I will start with the fact that whether it is farmers, passengers, or tourists, it is all the same. We need a government that can act.
Let us see how it acted. This is a government that wasted $50 million building things like gazebos in a southern riding. This is a government that spent $2 billion to host the G8 meetings in Toronto, when they it could have hosted it for a fraction of that cost in a more secure location. It is wasting tons of money and not doing enough to help farmers.
I have an article that states:
Doug Chorney, president of Manitoba's Keystone Agricultural Producers, called on Ottawa to act sooner rather than later to fix the bottleneck. In a recent opinion piece, Chorney laid the blame on “abysmal service” by Canada's two major railways.
It says the duopoly Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway have in the marketplace allows them to provide inadequate service without fear of consequences.
Again, we have a government that refuses to act.
On the CN piece with respect to the strike, I can say—