Environment committee  It's going to put a lot of pressure on it, because as grain prices remain strong and as demand remains strong, farmers are moving to maximize their farming operations. The other piece I maybe should raise here is that a lot of farmers have retired and they've rented out their l

Environment committee  Yes, I stand corrected.

Environment committee  I'd say that the majority of the focus will be on the good land. You'll never get rich farming poor land. It's the marginal lands that get set aside first for the conservation effort. Whatever incentive program there is to continue putting more land into those conservation projec

Environment committee  By and large, I don't think there's that much cooperation. If you just go back and look at this map here, an example of what you would be talking about is this little piece of land in the upper right-hand corner there. If you're farming the big field in this part, how do you actu

Environment committee  Yes. If you could get the neighbours to cooperate in something like this, to where the land would continue on, well, then you have a wildlife corridor to move up and down, versus the next guy clearing it all off and you're the only guy left with a piece of bush.

Environment committee  I'll just draw everyone's attention to the handout we have, with some photos. There were some captions, but unfortunately I didn't have time to get them all translated, so I will just speak to the actual photos.

Environment committee  That's not the case for all members, but thank you for your honesty, Mr. Chair. My name is Richard Phillips. I am with the Grain Growers of Canada. In the first photo you'll see the smiling family with the children. This is Franck Groeneweg. Franck farms just outside of Regin

Transport committee  I don't think we're asking for 10 companies.

Transport committee  I think what we're looking at here is the level of service and timeliness of service to meet our sales commitments. That's what we're really talking about. I would say that in the trucking business if you're not getting that timely service from company A, because there are more

Transport committee  In fairness to the grain industry, most of the tenders that go out and that we can bid on are several months in advance. We're not trying to deliver grain to Turkey in 10 days from today. I would argue that these are time periods during which we have ample time to meet our commit

Transport committee  Yes and no. I think what we have here is the framework for it, but the amendments that the gentlemen are suggesting here would greatly enhance and give us comfort and ability to actually enforce what we think we're getting.

Transport committee  Let me just back up a little bit and say that as the growers, we're not the actual shippers. The actual enforcement will fall upon the grain and the forest companies to do that enforcement themselves. We as the farmers would not be actually enforcing this because we don't actuall

Transport committee  To take just a few seconds, I think Wade is right. In Tisdale we have four major terminals competing for our grain. Any time anybody has a little extra money, they all want my grain badly. I find that they give most of that profit away back on the driveway, trying to buy my grain

Transport committee  I think two of us will answer that. Wade, do you want to go first?

Transport committee  Just go ahead.