Thank you, Your Honour.

Before I was called, we were talking about Bill C-282. The supply management people want that bill. The point I’m making, colleagues, is that they are unified from coast to coast to coast on Bill C-234 without — for Senator Moncion’s sake — this frivolous amendment. They are unified from coast to coast to coast. Every farmer wants Bill C-234. It’s important for them.

Colleagues, farmers know best. If they can find efficiencies to bring down the carbon footprint, they will do that because it benefits them as much as it benefits anyone else. They are good stewards.

The other thing we had on Thursday, colleagues — and I’m probably going to get jumped on here again, but nevertheless — we had had a leaders’ meeting that Tuesday morning, and we had talked about the passage of Bill C-234. We had a verbal agreement by five leaders that Bill C-234 would come to a vote on Thursday last week.