Mr. Boulanger:

Mr. Chairman, I asked the minister a question which, I hope, he will be able to answer.

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Mr. Boulanger:

The agricultural policy of the Conservative government is a defeatist policy. Our farmers are leaving their farms to go and live in the cities, because they can no longer live on their farms. We only have to read a booklet issued by the Department of Agriculture, last year, to realize that 61 per cent of eastern farmers are hardly making a gross income of $2,500 a year. How can you expect them to make both ends meet when a floor sweeper, in industry, is earning $3,000-

Mr. Samuel Boulanger (Drummond-Ariha-baska):

Mr. Speaker, I should like to put a supplementary question to the Secretary of State.

Could the minister tell us who recommended Mr. Labrecque for the position of returning officer in the riding of Bellechasse?

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Mr. Boulanger:

As usual, you misunderstood me.

Mr. Boulanger:

Mr. Chairman, I do not think I have strayed away from the subject. It is perhaps the hon. member for Berthier-Maskinonge-Delanaudiere-