Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act   the budget itself to the Canadian Wheat Board, to back-to-work legislation and yet again today. I would emphasize, for the Conservative backbenchers in particular, that when they start to think about what will happen next week during the hours and hours of potential voting that might

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

Increasing Offenders' Accountability for Victims Act   to committee. I do not know how that would have worked for back-to-work legislation, the killing of the Canadian Wheat Board or many of the other pieces of legislation, such as the gun registry and so forth. Having said that, if that principle does not change, based on what the previous

Business of Supply   and that are increasing the income inequality gap that needs to be addressed. There are policy decisions by the government that have profound impacts. On the Prairies, I can talk about the Canadian Wheat Board and the hundreds of small prairie farmers who will be lost because of the government's

Business of Supply  Mr. Speaker, what we have to do is listen to the 10,000-plus farmers who voted against the government's dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. They realized that at the end of the day, it would mean fewer Prairie farmers and the economies of many rural communities

Business of Supply  . There are things we have established over the years, not just the Liberal Party, but all parties. We talked about education and health, but take even our agriculture system, with supply management, for example when we had the Wheat Board. Those were things that made farmers prosperous. Take

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

International Trade committee   principle as what happened at the Canadian Wheat Board committee. You know that. Deadlines are imposed, proper debate is not given, and parliamentarians and parties.... You're shot down to parties now. We're all elected in our own right, but you're down to parties. Can the parliamentary

Agriculture and Agri-Food   that the minister claimed that no products reached store shelves? The incompetence of both the Minister of Health and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board knows no bounds. Truck drivers knew there was a problem and meat cutters knew

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, in all of the intense debates over the last 25 years about the contentious issue of the Canadian Wheat Board, I often said that an even more crucial matter was the Canadian Grain Commission. The Grain Commission is that agency in our grain marketing system

Jobs and Growth Act, 2012  Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for not mentioning the Canadian Wheat Board in his speech, which, as I have told him several times, is really a red hot issue in my riding. The member mentioned small business a number of times. I would like to ask him

Jobs and Growth, 2012   years from now? What will it look like? A great deal of trust that many farmers had was lost because of the way the government dealt with the Canadian Wheat Board. Many are looking at the government and are somewhat fearful in regard to the Canadian Grain Commission. That is why I

Jobs and Growth, 2012  . In this budget, in the previous budget and in budgets to come, do the Conservatives have a bit of a plan of privatizing rural Canada, of taking services out of rural Canada, whether it is Parks Canada, the EI changes, what they are doing to fisheries and what they did with the Wheat Board

Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   in using time allocation, a form of closure, using it as frequently as this particular Government House Leader does. I quickly did up a list. We had the Canadian Wheat Board, the pooled pension program, the copyright bill, the gun registry, back-to-work legislation, the financial

Agriculture committee  I understood, as many did on this committee, that with the demise of the Wheat Board we'd see a rush, a huge growth in processing in value-added industry out west. I remember the Alliance Grain Traders saying that they were going to open a pasta plant, and then that didn't