Agriculture committee  I'd like to respond to the question concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement as it affects agriculture. There was an article in the newspaper that appeared in January. It stated that tortilla prices had gone up by 30% and it explained why. It explained that since the si

Agriculture committee  Last year, I had the opportunity to go to a region of Senegal in order to give some rice producers some training on collective marketing. They told us that people from the World Bank, who are favourable to the market, studied rice production in that region and told them that they

Agriculture committee  I have almost finished. I just wanted to ask you to recognize our existence. Health care workers are there, but their representatives must come and meet with us. In that way, the pressure would diminish and things would be easier. Thank you.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. My name is Claude Barnabé. I am President of the umbrella group Au coeur des familles agricoles. I am also a full-time farmer and for 15 years I taught young people who wanted to take over their family farms at an agricultural college. The Au coeur des fami