You have a Department of Transport. It deals with all the transportation issues. You have the Department of Health that deals with health issues. Industry deals with the industry issues. But the rural file doesn t clearly fit into a particular ministry.
Agriculture obviously has a piece of it.
Natural Resources, through its mining and forestry interests, obviously has a piece of it. Industry Canada obviously has a piece of it. But no one department has got the whole rural file. So one of the things that the Prime Minister said is you need to approach this on a horizontal basis, across departmental lines. You have to make sure that you bring together the various components of the federal government and direct it to the problems.