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Agriculture committee About two-thirds of what we produce in western Canada is exported out by rail right now. Every bushel that goes into ethanol could arguably be one less bushel we have to export. The larger we grow it.... I don't have the exact number; we can maybe see the numbers we're going to h
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Yes, the Don O'Connor study. I made a note here. We'll get that to the committee.
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Thank you. He touched on the biodiesel part from the Grain Growers; I'll just touch on some ethanol thoughts. I have five brief reasons why we are happy to see an ethanol industry develop and why we would support Bill C-33. Number oneāand I'm speaking more from a western Can
February 12th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Actually, that flagged an issue. Thank you for the question. It actually follows up with Mrs. Skelton's question as well. We recently met with the Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers. They were talking about some of the new regulations and provisions for security that are com
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Just following upon that, one thing we've discussed but which we haven't put forward as a formal proposal was whether cash advances could be moved ahead and made earlier, so that you could take advantage, because even if the fertilizer price is going up, there are local over-supp
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee I think I'd concur. I'm not sure we can regulate. For every regulation government creates, farmers will find a way around it--that's just kind of the nature of the beast--or other business people find ways around it. Some of the work we've done is on harmonizing and opening the
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Yes, we could be a lot tougher yet. We'd be glad to put a submission in to you at a later date on some of the things. I think you would find a lot of the groups signing on to that sort of issue.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Go ahead and ask your question first.
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee We also want to comment on the transportation, as to what exactly you can do. I think what we need to see is a level of service review, both for the industrial shippers but also for the grain shippers. That costs, just on the income side, certainly western Canadian farmers. The
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee I'm not sure I have the wisdom of the people around this table on that one. I guess that would take some study and work on what exactly the barriers are. Is there property out there that can be mined that's not being mined, and why isn't it? Are people holding onto properties and
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee What we don't know is are there other barriers out there? Why have there been no new entrants into the mining industry? Are there barriers out there that can be dealt with to get more competition? Because competition is what brings down the price. And I think FNA would fully agre
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Just in closing on the fertilizer point, what we see is a huge demand for this fertilizer around the world, and as Canadian producers, we're going to be competing to keep those products here in Canada. What can the committee do? What can the government do? I think if there's anyt
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee Good morning. My name is Richard Phillips. I'm the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada, and my wife and I still maintain a grain farm in Saskatchewan. With me today is a director of the Grain Growers of Canada, Mr. Leo Meyer. Leo is a grains and oilseeds farmer fr
February 5th, 2008Committee meeting
Richard Phillips
Agriculture committee When you ask how much money is needed, one of the problems for a lot of people in western Canada with the CAIS program is we actually can't predict clearly what the program covers, so it's really hard to know with any clarity what we would need when in many ways we don't know how
March 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Richard Phillips