International Trade committee  No, no, I think that's true. If you had to focus somewhere, why would you start off with a 15% tariff barrier in any of your market development work? That's why the trade deals and the negotiations are important to move forward. Certainly the government has been very aggressive o

International Trade committee  The Grain Growers of Canada is a coalition of commodity associations that would be more directly involved themselves. So Pulse Canada, for example, which would be made up of all the pulse associations and the industry, would have their promotional budget. I don't know the exact n

International Trade committee  I would say it's a very price-sensitive market and they will go to where the lowest price is to a large degree. Turkey, for example, produces a lot of lentils and other crops that we would be producing as well. So Turkey would certainly be a major competitor, So I would say they

International Trade committee  Of those, the only other country that has a free trade agreement is the United States, which does have some market. But when I was doing the research on this, I found that they do not do a lot of agricultural trade with Jordan.

International Trade committee  We would export well over 50% of the pulses we produce in Canada. This is one potential market. India is a very large market for our pulses. Other countries in the Middle East are also markets for our pulses. We export a lot of pulses.

International Trade committee  No, we have not done any studies on that. But before we came to this meeting, we talked with the Canadian Wheat Board; we talked with Pulse Canada, who does the exports; we phoned up the Canadian Canola Growers and we talked with the canola exporters. We did our research that way

International Trade committee  Perhaps Mr. Masswohl can talk on the beef side, but on the grains side, to a large degree, in some of these countries, the people process stuff locally or domestically. People will take the wheat they grow in their country down to a local miller, who grinds it. So to a large degr

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I think to some degree in that part of the world, and in all parts of the world where there are regions like that, once you have your foot in the door and you establish that you are a fair trader and you are not actually coming in to dump products on the market and displace farme

International Trade committee  I have to confess that I don't know about the internal trade and whether they could move to Syria or Bahrain or other countries internally. I'm not exactly sure what the rules would be on the transshipping in there. I apologize for that.

International Trade committee  I'd like to wrap up on behalf of the Grain Growers of Canada. I was going to mention that we sell wheat. We have sold a little bit of wheat when they have had a real shortage, and in the last few years the Canadian Wheat Board has also sold a limited amount of barley as well. T

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. My name is Richard Phillips, and I am the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada, Producteurs de grains du Canada. With me today is our president, Doug Robertson. The invitation today was originally sent to the Cana

Human Resources committee  My children are a little older now, but I can remember when we were raising our children on the farm and we had four children under seven years of age. Our friends would be doing things and going places and it was all paid leave. My wife had to take two children to go somewhere,

Human Resources committee  We weren't asked or consulted on this, but I think our sense would be, certainly among the farmers, that maternity and paternity would be the big pieces. If you were going to participate in the program I think those are two key areas that you would be very interested in. You can

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chairperson, and good afternoon, members of Parliament and guests. You'll be happy to know that I walked here from the market, so I didn't spend any money on your budget. My wife Sally and I are originally from a farm at Tisdale, Saskatchewan, where we raised f