Questions On The Order Paper  Maple syrup producer organizations received early payments under the Advance Payments for Crop Act, APCA, for maple syrup and not the Department of National Revenue Act. For 1994, no applications for maple syrup were made under the APCA. In 1995, three organizations applied for

Supply  Madam Speaker, those are the types of questions the Western Grain Marketing Panel has been addressing in the course of its hearings and town hall meetings across western Canada and in all of its deliberations. I think it is import to first have a process by which everyone can pa

Supply  Madam Speaker, that verification is very timely and very helpful, thank you. The question asked by the hon. gentleman from Frontenac is very important. As I said during my remarks, I have placed a great deal of faith and confidence in the integrity and hard work of the western g

Supply  Madam Speaker, I am pleased to take part in the debate today. It is one of those very rare occasions when the Reform Party has turned its attention in the House to an agricultural issue. Until very recently, day after day, week after week, month after month would go by when the

Canada Customs  Mr. Speaker, I am gad the hon. gentleman made reference to due process of law. He will know that in the case of the litigation underway in western Canada there have been two conflicting court decisions, one earlier this spring in a case called McMechan and Cairns that went in on

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, I take from the hon. member's preamble that he has now conceded the basic point about single desk selling. The hon. gentleman should review the submissions made to the Western Grain Marketing Panel by the Millers and Bakers Association of Canada. It supported the Ca

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, members of the Reform Party have asked a number of questions in the past, indicating their opposition to the Canadian Wheat Board. Those questions have been answered, but they appear to be impervious to logic. Let me try another tack. I would like to quote the May 9

Food And Agriculture Organization  Mr. Speaker, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is in the process of organizing a world food summit which is to be held in Rome in November of this year. The preparations for that summit began last year here in Canada when we hosted the 50th anniversary

Criminal Law Improvement Act, 1996  moved that Bill C-17, an act to amend the Criminal Code and certain other acts be read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal affairs.

Employment  Mr. Speaker, whatever the marketing system, if the grain supplies are low and the volume of grain is simply not there to move, there is nothing that either the government or the opposition can do to magically increase the volume. I would point out that we are anticipating a good

Employment  Mr. Speaker, the principal difficulty affecting Prince Rupert this year is a common difficulty that is affecting all Canadian grain ports and that is, quite frankly, a shortage of supply. The hon. gentleman will remember that a couple of years ago the predicament was exactly the

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, the Reform Party continues to make demands for pre-emptory changes in the Canadian grain marketing system. The hon. gentleman will know opinions in western Canada about best methods of grain marketing are divided and those on both sides of the question hold their op

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, the representations contained in the latter part of the hon. gentlemen's question I am sure will be music to the ears of the Minister of Industry, who is responsible for internal trade negotiations. I hope the hon. gentleman would use his good offices in a construct

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, buried in this series of questions is an ongoing attack by the Reform Party against institutions like the Canadian Wheat Board and against marketing systems like supply management. We are vigorously defending the Canadian supply management system because we believe

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is correct to say that for fiscal, trade, diversification, innovation and efficiency reasons a number of former subsidy programs have been brought to an end. In every case appropriate transitional measures or gradual phase out measures or other adapta