Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, for me this is a never ending crusade in concert with the Prime Minister, the Minister for International Trade, the Minister of Foreign and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food. I pushed for our Canadian trade arguments in personal meetings with Secretary Glick

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, in view of the fact that the work on the statistics is done jointly by the federal government and the provinces, it is obviously a very open and transparent process. With respect to the advised PRO projection as it is called, from the Canadian Wheat Board, that woul

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, the government has been applying all of its time and attention to work on what is a very serious problem for many farmers in western Canada. That is why we have extended and improved the crop insurance program. We have done the same with NISA. In terms of extra incr

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, the Government of Canada turns its back on no children. The message about the importance of Canadian children is very clear, both in the throne speech and long before that in the policies and actions of this government. It is our hope that the existing programming

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, there has been no ambushing or sandbagging, in the language the NDP likes to use. As part of the normal activity of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada working in co-operation with provincial agricultural officials in the various provinces, there is a regular updating

Cape Breton Development Corporation Divestiture Authorization And Dissolution Act  moved for leave to introduce Bill C-11, an act to authorize the divestiture of the assets of, and to dissolve, the Cape Breton Development Corporation, to amend the Cape Breton Development Corporation Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts. (Motions deemed adopte

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, any specific reference to the federal budget would have to be left to the Minister of Finance. We welcome the input from the climate action network just as we welcome all the hard work and advice of the 450 Canadians who have been involved in the 16 issue tables tha

Plutonium Imports  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is mixing and mingling a whole variety of unrelated things. The incident at Dorval, for example, I am happy to confirm, involved a container that was in fact empty. There was no actual spill and there was no health hazard whatsoever. All the issues

Plutonium Imports  Mr. Speaker, no decision has been taken. Obviously the transportation plans are just now being reviewed and no decision could be taken until Transport Canada makes a determination in this matter. We have indicated our agreement in principle subject to that technical approval fro

Grain  Mr. Speaker, the Canada-U.S. grain trade is bedevilled by far too many myths and sterile debates about marketing ideologies. I have met with the U.S. wheat associates organization and with the representatives of 13 American wheat producing states. This weekend I will be meeting

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, we both have and are addressing those concerns. We have held public consultations with all the local officials. We have held public open houses to provide complete information. We have provided a public comment period to the Department of Transport, which ended a wee

The Environment  Mr. Speaker, again the hon. member forgets that this is very much a foreign policy initiative in the interest of promoting world peace and reducing the threat of nuclear weapons. We have said we are prepared to consider the principle and to conduct the tests. We are not committe

Aboriginal Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I answer in my capacity as the federal interlocutor for Metis and off reserve Indians. The supreme court judgment in the Marshall case was not totally precise in defining exactly who all the potential beneficiaries of the historic treaties would be. On Friday the G

Devco  Mr. Speaker, in addition to the human resources package announced at the time of the announcement of the Phalen mine closure, we also indicated that there were two other equally important components in the package. One was the attempt to privatize the Prince mine with the objecti

Natural Resources  Mr. Speaker, our approach to MOx fuel testing is a foreign policy initiative to help, if we can, rid the world of nuclear weapons. A proposed testing of a very small amount of plutonium oxide is fully governed by Canadian laws to protect health, safety and the environment. Let m