Petitions  Mr. Speaker, as we all know, Canadian wheat farmers in the Prairies want to retain the Canadian Wheat Board. A vast majority have clearly indicated that in a plebiscite. This petition is calling for the government to be respectful of what the Canadian prairie farmers really

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about government hypocrisy. On the one hand, approximately 40,000 Prairie grain farmers voted 62% to keep the Canadian Wheat Board. The Prime Minister declares that the vote means nothing, that it does not count. The Prime Minister, like

International Trade committee  —but I do want to speak on this. I would ask the parliamentary secretary to reconsider this motion. I've only seen this motion once before, and I've been around here a while. The place I've seen it was the committee discussing the Canadian Wheat Board legislation, which

Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, I do not think, as my colleague said, that there is any question that there has been only short-term economic damage to producers as a result of the government's inaction on how to handle the system changes as a result of killing the Canadian Wheat Board

Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act   was right when he said there was nothing there. I read another interesting thing in The Western Producer. I might not have my figures exactly right. When the Wheat Board was in place, the cost of transporting a bushel of grain from the prairies to port was around $1.50 with probably 50

Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act   in and harvest it, with the price of fuel. Meanwhile, they were not moving their grain. It is blatantly clear that the Conservatives need to take another look at their failed rail act, Bill C-52. That was introduced last June. They scrapped the Wheat Board, and all of a sudden

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Nobody is talking about wanting the Wheat Board back, Mr. Speaker. However, what we are saying is that the minister failed to understand the total supply chain, and he ultimately has the responsibility for the mess in western Canada at the moment.

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, skip the quote and have the plebiscite. That is what the farmers in the Prairies want to see. The government has demonstrated that it does not care what the prairie farmer has to say, as the Prime Minister himself has decided to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board

The Budget   of the wheat farmers do not support the actions the government is taking regarding the Wheat Board. How is it that the government sees fit to give the impression that it is being supportive of the wheat farmer while at the same time the wheat farmer does not want to lose the Wheat Board

The Budget   for Canadians, the Conservatives are giving corporations tax cuts and taxing our grandchildren down the road. They should be ashamed of themselves. If I have time, I would like to discuss the Wheat Board. I challenge the member opposite. Call a plebiscite on the Wheat Board and we

The Budget  Madam Speaker, the government has made the decision to shut down the Canadian Wheat Board. The impact is going to be quite significant. Given that the member is from the prairies, surely to goodness he recognizes that a vast majority of wheat farmers on the prairies support

Transport committee  Minister, the next number I want to put to you is the $5-billion disaster in the Canadian grains industry. I think it's fair to state that your government set this in motion. The elimination of the Wheat Board was supposed to provide more opportunities according to your Prime

Extension of Sitting Hours   recall the Canadian Wheat Board legislation that was put through in this session. This huge piece of legislation impacted 30,000 or 40,000 prairie farmers. We have a law in place that says that the Prime Minister has a responsibility to ensure a plebiscite for the farmers

Canada–Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, not necessarily. I would like to think through his question as he has put it forward. Not all trade agreements are a formal document. Not all decisions the government makes come out in a formal trade document. The example I used was the Canadian Wheat Board. Under

Business of Supply   of the community. For whatever reason, that has all been lost now and there are none of those pools left. Worse yet, the last protection that grain producers had in western Canada was the Canadian Wheat Board and the authority for it to work effectively has been taken away by the Government