International Trade committee  I could just give the example of oats. You'd think we could export oats, but there are also oat groats, oatmeal, rolled oats, flaked grains, hulled oats, and pearled oats. You can get picked apart on the value-added pieces if you're not careful. There's a lot to each individual c

International Trade committee  I was going to give you a different example of a non-tariff trade barrier. It can even happen within your blueberry industry. When you're looking at agricultural opportunities out in Nova Scotia, there is a lot of fruit and berry production and the EU has a huge potential, but in

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  If I could add a bit, the other thing is that it's not static out there in the world. Other countries are also doing free trade agreements. With Morocco, for example, the U.S. is already ahead of us. As Canadian wheat and durum exporters, we'll be virtually eliminated from that m

International Trade committee  Thank you, Kathleen. I was also smiling at Mr. McLaren when he talked about Pearson, because I'm just reading a book right now that goes back to Laurier's vision of trade, if you want to go back even further yet. Trade is bigger than just tariff lines. It's also about market ac

International Trade committee  Could I say one last thing? I think I speak on behalf of Mr. Masswohl as well. We go to the agriculture committee quite a bit, and we recently wrote a letter chastising the members at the agriculture committee for not paying attention to witnesses. I want to say that I and the

International Trade committee  I just wanted to congratulate you.

International Trade committee  Well, fair enough. I too would like to thank the opposition members for pairing. It's really important. We had a huge problem in the Chinese market with blackleg on our canola, and if opposition MPs did not go along on the trips and pair on this, we wouldn't be able to resolve

International Trade committee  For the grains sector, it would be by sea. There would be no air--

International Trade committee  It was over 10,000 tonnes of chickpeas, so that would be either containerized or in a hold in a vessel or two. It's large volumes going on the bulk grain side.

International Trade committee  Yes. To put it in perspective, the private sector is very active in the pulse sector there right now: in 2007 Jordan was Canada's largest chickpea market. I think you will see that the private sector has already got its fingers in there, and with the tariff barriers gone, I think

International Trade committee  To the first one, I'm not aware of consultation with the grain growers on this. It may have happened, because it was about the time I came to the Grain Growers of Canada. It was my understanding that the King of Jordan was coming for a visit and that this was the impetus to move

International Trade committee  No, I'm looking to see if John wants to answer first.

International Trade committee  Let's look out one year, two years, three years and let's just presume that there's been an excellent relationship and maybe a growing trade relationship between Canada and Jordan and that we've always met the specifications: they're happy with the quality, happy with the product

International Trade committee  Yes.