Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point or order. The hon. member is talking about transportation policy. What we are dealing with here are the motions in Group No. 2. The member is not speaking to those motions. I would request that you ensure he does.
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Canadian Wheat Board Act November 20th, 1997
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point or order. The hon. member is talking about transportation policy. What we are dealing with here are the motions in Group No. 2. The member is not speaking to those motions. I would request that you ensure he does.
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Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, the member from Frontenac is getting into inflammatory remarks against the current minister of agriculture.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. If the member would refer to the point of order, he would recognize very clearly that the points he is raising are not on the topic in terms of Motion No. 1.
This ridiculousness can be carried too far. This member is filibustering and he is not even on topic.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. This member is far off base in terms of talking about Motion No. 1. He should be talking about what the motion is about. What does this have to do with Motion No.1?
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Earlier there was a question from a member of the Reform Party directed to the member for Essex—Kent with reference to the export licence for wheat and barley. I have a copy of that export licence and I would like to table it.
While I am on my feet, in terms of transparency of records, I refer members opposite to the Canadian Wheat Board annual report which clearly shows the wheat board has obtained—
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Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that it was not the Liberal Party. It was a request from the producers themselves calling for national products marketing agencies and these requests were abided by in terms of living up to the wishes—
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The most changes in its history.
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Mr. Speaker, with respect to this point of order, the hon. member was not talking about the specific certificates. He was talking about the fact that the Canadian Wheat Board has to authorize those export certificates for other areas.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order.
The member for Athabasca seems to be referring to me. I am Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and I am a beef and grain producer from Prince Edward Island.
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Madam Speaker, much more pleasant in any event to address my remarks to the Chair.
In closing I want to say that this piece of legislation is here in the best interests of producers. We have had the hearings. I have said three times that this preamble to the legislation is a very subtle way in which the Reform Party is really trying to undermine the real future of the Canadian Wheat Board.