Extension of Sitting Hours   budget bills, where there are literally changes being made to 30 or 40 pieces of legislation and it allowed a few hours of debate. We can talk about the Canadian Wheat Board, where it allowed a few hours of debate before closing down the Wheat Board. We can talk about the pooled

Request for Emergency Debate  Mr. Speaker, I stand in the House to request an emergency debate on the government's refusal to hold a plebiscite pursuant to section 47.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act before introducing legislation to kill the single desk marketing system. Section 47.1 of the Canadian Wheat

Request for Emergency Debate   for the Canadian Wheat Board. The minister has consistently called for the dissolution of the Canadian Wheat Board. We have learned through his answers in question period that the minister will, in the next session of Parliament, attempt to do so without holding a plebiscite of the wheat board

Agriculture committee  . The numbers are out there. When you look at the basis price you see what.... I know that when you look at the price the Wheat Board got before and what they're getting now.... We're not sitting here saying that we want the Wheat Board back, but we're saying that you need somebody here who

House debate  Madam Speaker, in my question on November 4, I asked the minister to explain his act of misleading the committee and why he deliberately refused to meet the board of directors of the Canadian Wheat Board. Knowing this minister's tactics, I should not have been surprised

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   out a plan of the logistics. He failed to recognize the other things that the Canadian Wheat Board had done in terms of drawing grain from hundreds of thousands of farmers, putting it on the two rail lines, and getting it to Vancouver in an efficient manner. He failed to recognize

Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, quite a number of farmers would certainly make that case. The Canadian Wheat Board had a variety of functions in the system. Some of them were set out in legislation, such as the single-desk seller function. Some of its functions simply developed by way

Canada–Jordan Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   is in regard to a debate that we had last summer when the government made the determination to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board. By getting rid of the Canadian Wheat Board, I would argue that ultimately we are going to see fewer Prairie farmers dealing with grain as a commodity. We

Bill C-18 committee   a single-desk market or an open market. Their propaganda machine, and we've seen some of it--I believe Mr. Martin held up some of it last night--will be talking about the voluntary Wheat Board. Well, read the section closely, Mr. Chair: “The Governor in Council”--the government

Canada-Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act  Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member, who was one of the key members going around the country basically saying that if we blow up the Canadian Wheat Board look at all the choices we will have. The Canadian Wheat Board was all about trade, and what do have now? We have

Agricultural Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, I could not help but notice that the minister wandered off Bill C-18 quite a bit and tried to put a spin on some of the decisions that the government previously made, one being the killing of the Canadian Wheat Board without any long-term planning on all the other

Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1  , this is the 100th time that time allocation has been brought in on legislation which we are seeing today, the budget implementation bill. We can also talk about the Canada Wheat Board, the pooled pensions, copyright legislation, back-to-work legislation with Canada Post and Air Canada, the first

Members not seeking re-election to the 42nd Parliament  , or during the battle for the Canadian Wheat Board and supply management. I have learned and grown with each posting, but never have I been more able to empathize with anyone as I have Canada's veterans. The absolute misery I have seen, particularly of those suffering from PTSD

The Budget   get their grain to market. The reason they cannot is that the current government, the government the member is a part of and the government that he said “yea, yea, yea” to, failed, when it killed the Canadian Wheat Board, to realize all the logistics carried out by the Canadian

The Budget   of this is a result of the decisions the Conservative government made previously relative to the Wheat Board, not in terms of its structure but in failing to realize what the Wheat Board did in terms of the logistics of transportation by collecting of the grain and getting it into the hull