Grain Transport  Mr. Speaker, the member hit the nail on the head about how the Conservatives dropped the ball on this. We see it even at the Vancouver port. The wheat board used to have a way of controlling where all the cars were going. The grain industry is vitally important not only

Grain Transport  ; Heimbecker put in an order for 800 cars last week and they got zero. Roughly 4,500 cars are supposed to be allocated every week, and that was zero. It used to be that the Canadian Wheat Board allocated the cars and took some control over the railway and the grain companies. My question

Grain Transport   recommendations about open access, which I found to be quite an intriguing idea. The member will remember that the Estey report was an integrated set of recommendations that included removing the Canadian Wheat Board from the logistics of grain handling and transportation. I wonder if my

Grain Transport  Mr. Speaker, the member for Welland talked a fair bit about the railways being part of the problem, but is there not another huge problem, and that is the grain companies? Grain used to be shipped as Canadian Wheat Board grain and could move around Vancouver by a paper

Grain Transport   to be difficult for the member that they cannot use the Wheat Board any longer as the bogeyman, but the Wheat Board did some things right. One of the things it did right was logistics. I would suggest to the member, and I hear the member laughing, that one of the reasons that farmers did

Grain Transport   together. We see what has failed with the government getting rid of all of this. Now it has tried to put it back onto the unions or the Wheat Board. My question goes more to the act the minister put forward last year that failed. The NDP alluded to it. I would ask the member what kind

Grain Transport   would be today. He made this statement on November 2, 2011, when he was talking about getting rid of the Wheat Board. He stated: To that end, both CN and CP are doing over a billion dollars worth of renovations on their main lines across western Canada, because they know

Grain Transport  Mr. Speaker, I too know that the remarks from the member from Vegreville were heartfelt, and I know the impact on the farming community. We may disagree on the Canadian Wheat Board. His government really killed the only entity that had the authority and the power to challenge

Grain Transport   of the comments tonight have been against the railways, but the fact of the matter is that the railways, in the port of Vancouver, now have to break up their cars and actually move the cars, whereas previously with the wheat board they were able to move a paper allocation between companies

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

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

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

Agricultural Growth Act   to the Canadian Wheat Board Act. The minister did, so I probably should as well, because I certainly do not agree with the minister's interpretation of the results of his killing the Canadian Wheat Board. It was one thing for the government, if it so decided, to not allow the producers

Agricultural Growth Act  Mr. Speaker, what we have consistently seen from the government is a reduction over time in a number of ways of its support for the agriculture community. The government talks a good line. I mentioned the disaster that the government created by killing the Canadian Wheat Board

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