Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First, for those who have come to Ottawa, I want to apologize for my not being here. I was in the House on a point of privilege on the Canadian Wheat Board issue and the Federal Court decision yesterday, and then with members of the other parties

Senate Reform Act  Mr. Speaker, the member referred to ways to add value to an appointed or an elected Senate to better protect minorities and regional interests. We saw what happened with the Canadian Wheat Board and the disadvantage many westerners felt. A regionally based Senate that had more

Fair Representation Act   of this chamber, whether they are government backbenchers or members of the opposition, time to participate and engage in the flawed legislation that is being brought forward. A good example of that is the Canadian Wheat Board legislation about which the Federal Court today said the government

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, I am not quite sure. We will have to see what that means. The legislation is now in front of Parliament. I want to have a categorical assurance from the minister that she will simply say that the legislation will not be proceeded with as long as this matter is in fr

Official Languages committee   movement is a long-term solution to that uneasiness. Yesterday, unfortunately, Parliament abolished a major cooperative in western Canada. The Conservative majority decided to put an end to the Canadian Wheat Board, which was a major blow. In the greater Canadian francophone community

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  , for whatever reason, have voted not to go that way and they are concerned that if the Canadian Wheat Board is no longer a monopoly, they will be worse off. How does the government make the decision? Is it based on its friends saying that it is a good thing to have market freedom

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act   of farmers because, suddenly, Cargill and Viterra will become the middle people. That does not exist right now because they have the Canadian Wheat Board as their sales and marketing agent. Why does the member resist the comments of the Alliance Grain Traders? It stated that it will now

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers   of the Wheat Board. They have acknowledged to me that there are many farms that will fail because they will not have the resources now to step up and create their own sales and marketing department. With the failure of those small farms, we will have small town economies, which

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers   about the need to keep the Wheat Board. What kind of nonsense is it that they would have us believe that nobody is emailing, writing or asking them to maintain the board? While the member may have received people in his riding office or he may have responded, he is welcome to come

Business of Supply   of the amendments. With regard to the Canadian Wheat Board, it was not a matter of procedure. Again, that was just rammed through. These farmers are working, and they do not have the time to come here and be notified because everything has to be rammed through. I see my time is up. I am

Agriculture committee   review is done but the government is failing to implement it. They're really falling down. The railways have been getting away with unbelievably poor service, gouging western Canadian farmers, which the Canadian Wheat Board showed was by many millions. The government continues

Points of Order  , he would tell us about the respect that he has lost for democracy as a result of the government's actions in terms of how it is basically doing away with the Canadian Wheat Board. Those individuals sat here while the minister answered questions. I can assure the House that, from

Canada Water Preservation Act   government has not, by any measure, shown it is willing to fight for Canadian natural resources as it kowtows to U.S. protectionism and gives away our competitive advantages, like the Canadian Wheat Board, and puts our supply management at risk. The proposed Canada water preservation act

Points of Order   unanswered. There are a lot of unanswered questions. I have here the remarks from the Australian wheat board which was somewhat similar to Canada's at one point in time but is now gone. Jock Munro, a farmer, said: We estimate we have lost $4 billion as growers since the wheat industry

Points of Order   through the Canadian Wheat Board, because they, the processors, need to get lower grain input costs in order for their operations to be profitable? What exactly do they mean by the importance of negotiating directly with producers to get a lower price for grain? That is good from