“Mr. Speaker, we have had an exchange of questions throughout my intervention and throughout her intervention about some commonalities we are facing and some of the challenges that farmers in my riding are experiencing. I would like to hear what kinds of impacts she is facing in her riding with food security and the increased costs of fuel, and how that is affecting her constituents.”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 144 wordsone of the biggest irritants in my riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands is the presence of free parking for large bulk carriers in what are called anchorages.1The port of Vancouver just takes ships that are partially filled and sends them to wait.2Partly on pointAs the member will know, the grain farmers suffer from the poor transportation lengths to get prairie grain shipped to the port of Vancouver and efficiently sent to their buyers.It has gotten worse since we got rid of the wheat board, but one thing that happens is that CN and CP are not prepared.They seem not to know that, every fall, there is going to be a harvest of grain and that they should be prepared for it.There is CN, where the largest shareholders are Bill and Melinda Gates.3CP’s full name is the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway.4Positioning · 14 wordsThey are not very interested in whether Canadian farmers get their grain to market.PositioningClaims · 52 wordsMy constituents are very worried about it.One time, we had to ship grain from the Prairies by truck.The price went way up.We almost ran out of feed for livestock on Vancouver Island because we have an extremely bad supply chain.It has nothing to do with price of diesel.Positioning · 8 wordsIt is just bad planning and bad management.Positioning
