John Dardis (Progressive Democrats)

I would not enter into those aspects of the chicken's life. Sensible people cannot understand some of these regulations, such as those concerning the straight banana, but there is an implementation aspect involved. Some of these people never leave their Brussels offices to see what happens in the outside world.

Senator Cummins mentioned the gap at Commission level and there is something to that. However, regarding the adoption of the Nice treaty, this country does not have the right to say to people who have been ground down for generations that they should not enjoy the rights and opportunities this country has been given over 30 years. We do not have that right morally because if it existed, the Germans and the French would have been quite entitled to have told us in 1972 to take a hike and we would never have reached the level of prosperity we have today.