Mr. Speaker, there are many things we know about without actually having to live that experience for ourselves.
I have been a teacher all my life, and that has to be a question that had me really thinking for a minute. I want to respond to this.
There is a very simple solution. Build infrastructure, support the infrastructure, provide extra rails, get the goods moved, and get them to the ports, to cities like Vancouver and Churchill where the ports are, so all the ports can operate and get the goods where they need to go.
The food we grow on the Prairies is part of a food chain. It gets grown on the Prairies and it gets used right across the country, but we also ship it overseas to earn money and to get a trade balance.