Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.

Results 46-48 of 48
Sorted by relevance | Sort by date: newest first / oldest first

International Trade committee  This is a good question. Let me answer it in two parts. First of all, the residues present in pulse crops in the vast majority of cases can't even be detected using today's analytical methods, so they're not different from zero. Our residues in pulse crops from Canada are so low that by and large we wouldn't worry, for example, if we had an MRL in Canada that was 5 parts per million but it was 4 parts per million in Colombia and 10 parts per million in Chile, because what we are asking to have as a safeguard is that even though we can easily come within any of those limits, even though they differ, what we can't tolerate is the near zero default tolerances of, let's say, 0.01 parts per million.

May 1st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

International Trade committee  Mr. Chairman, committee members, I'd like to spend the rest of our time highlighting one emerging challenge that all commodity exports will increasingly face in the years to come, as current zero thresholds that are on the books in importing companies collide with analytical methods to test against those tolerances that have now ranged down into single parts per billion.

May 1st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis

International Trade committee  We'll split it. Nick will introduce it.

May 1st, 2013Committee meeting

Gord Kurbis