International Trade committee   that area? It is a big country. There are lots of opportunities there. In an area I see as a problem, where do you see we're going to be left in the Chinese grain market with the loss of the Canadian Wheat Board? I know the others on the other side will laugh at this, but the fact

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, if the member were to listen to what the average prairie wheat farmer is saying, he or she is saying that farmers do want to keep the Wheat Board; they see the value. I have said this on a number of occasions. I am sure he could sympathize with the farmer who says

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, I had the pleasure of working with the member while we fought against the government over the last four or five years to prevent it from destroying the Canadian Wheat Board, which seems to be what it wants. The Minister of State for Western Diversification got up

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers  Mr. Speaker, I truly believe that the Prime Minister of Canada has had a very strong personal hatred for the Canadian Wheat Board long before he even became the Prime Minister of our country. I think this whole Bill C-18 to get rid of the Wheat Board has more to do

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, the member for Fort McMurray—Athabasca loves to attack members who are not from the Wheat Board area, but I have spent many years in the Wheat Board area and I hear from wheat growers every day. The key point is this. He said that other Canadians were not under

Agriculture committee  Yes, I understand that, and I don't want to interrupt you, but I don't have much time and I will anyway. Do you have any place where those numbers are laid out? As I said, there is no longer a Canadian Wheat Board report that tells us anything. Is there any place we can turn

Agricultural Growth Act   in the history of Canada have we witnessed this. This is not even the first time for this particular minister. Do members remember the Canadian Wheat Board? Even though it was denied the plebiscite, which by law was mandated, there was time allocation. It is disrespectful of our democracy

Committees of the House  , providing some sort of affirmation of their support for supply management. However, the Conservative government promised to support the Canadian Wheat Board, but at the end of the day it got rid of that board's monopoly. Why should farmers be confident in the government's commitment

Bill C-18 committee   they are with the government because it's doing away with single-desk selling under the Canadian Wheat Board. The Canadian Wheat Board has given farmers an advantage the Americans wish they had. This minister is serving up the Canadian Wheat Board on a silver platter to the Americans. We have to ask who

Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act   allocation. To list few of them, there was the Canadian Wheat Board pool registration, copyright legislation, back-to-work legislation, free trade agreements, first nations legislation, and massive budget bills, which are an abuse in themselves. As has been pointed out, no government

Bill C-18 committee  —that government members opposite were laughing. It's not funny, the loss of single-desk selling. The empirical evidence throughout the years has been that the Canadian Wheat Board returns more back to primary producers than the open market. It results in greater efficiencies

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, the idea that the voluntary wheat board could operate is nothing but government hypocrisy. The fact is the board is moving. The government, through this bill, would fire the farmer-elected directors, who were elected by the farm community, and it would either

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Keith Ryan is one. I met with Keith on Saturday, and I believe he might even be one of the individuals who is looking at some sort of a lawsuit in trying to deal with the Wheat Board. The reality is that when I was meeting with farmers in Winnipeg, they made it very clear to me

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, the hon. gentleman and I will simply have to agree to disagree on that point. I support my side of the argument. A number of studies done by both the Wheat Board and independent organizations have analyzed this issue of the price premium that is available

Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act  Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity to speak to Mr. Charlebois, and in the same tone he also indicated that there were alternatives to help and fix the Wheat Board that exists. I will acknowledge that the Wheat Board needs to be tweaked, but I will not acknowledge that the Wheat