Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Wheat Board has never been as closed, secretive and non-transparent as it is today. There is no data in the annual report, no financial statements and no examination by the Auditor General. This agency, concocted and directed by the government

Agriculture and Agri-Food  Mr. Speaker, media speculation is growing in the west about the final disposal of the Canadian Wheat Board. The deadline is not until 2017, but it does appear to be happening more quickly. Can the minister say how many potential buyers have signed confidentiality agreements

Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 2   there are needs that the government is not meeting, which is limiting the amount of production coming out of the Brandon pork assembly line. The member mentioned wheat. The government is the one that killed the Canadian Wheat Board without even going to the farmers. Even though the law

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, I raised a question on September 26 about the Canadian Wheat Board because of the growing concern in the farm community that not only did the Conservative government destroy one of the best marketing institutions in terms of enhancing farmers' marketing

Canadian Wheat Board  Mr. Speaker, the government promised to deliver, but farmers actually believed they would have a vote. The government never gave them that opportunity. The Conservatives just destroyed the old Canadian Wheat Board with the stroke of a pen, by legislation. The member talks

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

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

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

Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act  Mr. Speaker, what a line we are getting from the member who is probably as much responsible as the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food for destroying the Canadian Wheat Board as a marketing institution in this country. As we know, that has cost farmers a great deal of money

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's an interesting discussion on the Wheat Board. I'll not get into it other than to say what the Wheat Board is now. It's just another grain company—it's as simple as that—that at some point in time, as most of the other corporate sectors do, will try

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

Agriculture committee   because they asked everything about the old Wheat Board when it was there and it was always in the audited report. For the old Wheat Board the numbers were always there. In any event, we are where we are. One of the concerns I hear about a lot is research positions not being filled

Rail service  -operation. The number of stakeholders and the demand on the system is going to continue to grow, which is good. It is good for the people out west; it is good for all of Canada, and it is good for the people who need our products around the world. The Canadian Wheat Board had a variety

Rail service   lost the Wheat Board, and there was an opportunity at that time for the government to come in with another system that would make everyone accountable and have everything move well. It can happen, but we have to have the cars, and we have to have everyone dealing with it. Right

Victims Bill of Rights Act   on a wide variety of different pieces of legislation, everything from budgets to pensions to the Canadian Wheat Board, and today it is Bill C-32. Since achieving his majority government, the Prime Minister has brought in closure, and that is what time allocation is, more than any other