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Agriculture committee  Good afternoon.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  Thank you for this opportunity, Mr. Chairman, and members of the standing committee. I'm speaking to you on behalf of all the gleaners organizations across Canada. There are currently seven of us doing essentially the same work. There are three in British Columbia, one in Alber

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  No, it doesn't. I'm speaking on behalf of all the gleaners across Canada. We ourselves have sent to 26 different countries since we've been in operation.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  In our area, there's a large greenhouse growing industry: tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. A lot of culls come from that industry. There's a huge acreage of potatoes, a sweet corn industry from the Taber area, and large acreages of onions and many other field crops. We have one

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  That's correct. I've received numerous photos of locations where it's been distributed. It's always gratifying to our volunteers. That's really the only reward they ask for, to see where it goes.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  We average 20 a day. Over the course of a year, well over a 1,000 individuals come out, many of them on a regular basis and some only once.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  If I narrow it down to a serving, it's between three and a half to five cents, depending on the price of natural gas. Natural gas and electricity are our biggest operating costs, so it depends on the fluctuation of those rates.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  Charitable organizations that are in the business of providing food aid in other countries, particularly after some major disaster, receive it right from our door. From our door they're responsible for the shipping costs to wherever it goes in the world. We do not charge them for

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  That's right. That was our first major shipment once we were operational five years ago.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  We want to ensure that we have the widest variety of vegetables. As you know, everything comes in at different times of the year. Root crops come out of storage throughout the winter months and the fall crops come out of the fields. The greenhouse industry supplies us pretty much

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  The bulk of it actually goes for foreign relief and aid. We make it available to soup kitchens and food banks here in Canada, but the simple answer is that it's not well received. It's very basic food, whereas most food banks in Canada have food that our citizens are more accusto

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  Once it's cooked up.... It's probably more common to go to soup kitchens whereby it is made into a soup and the cooks there probably have the skills to know what to do with it, whereas maybe some of the patrons of food banks are not as familiar with cooking dehydrated vegetables.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  We would be happy to partner with anyone, home economists or dietitians who would be willing to educate people on that.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith

Agriculture committee  What you just described is exactly it.

June 2nd, 2014Committee meeting

James Smith