Agriculture committee  Dealing with the first question about NAFTA, certainly the data demonstrates that all of our agricultural exports are climbing and continue to do so, and that has not benefited farmers. The net realized income for farmers has not improved, so that should tell us something. If w

Agriculture committee  It would have to be determined by a cost-of-production equation of some sort. Also, we need a regulatory framework that enhances supply management and orderly marketing. Those are two instruments that allow farmers to have more financial stability. I think I'll stop there.

Agriculture committee  Yes. First of all, in this question of technology, the issue is whether you let technology control you or whether policy controls the use of technology and what technologies get developed. That's an important thing that we have to keep in mind. Also, how do you ensure the finan

Agriculture committee  I think that's the question: what kind of agriculture do we want? What kind of food system do we want? Do we want an industrial one? That's what we have right now. Is it working? Well, we heard a lot of speakers here highlight the fact that it's not working for farmers and farm

Agriculture committee  I think a really good example of this issue of people paying into EI and not being able to benefit from it are the migrant workers from Mexico who come to Ontario. They pay into EI and the Canada Pension Plan and it is absolutely impossible for them to ever recuperate those costs

Agriculture committee  In this study, which involved 105 women in six provinces, I mentioned that only 6.7% of those women participated in the APF consultations. Why didn't they participate? Many of the farm organizations are still male-dominated, so when a farm organization gets an invitation to atten

Agriculture committee  First I'd like to thank the honourable members of this committee for the opportunity to appear before you. It's a real privilege to exercise our right to participate in a democratic process. My presentation essentially summarizes the results of the study I co-wrote with two oth