Agriculture committee  I have a suggestion, something that has the same requirements as our food going out. I don't care if it's COOL or whatever the heck you want to call it. There has to be something in place for food that's coming into this country for Canadians; it has to have the same standards. I

Agriculture committee  There definitely has to be something. Because I believe you guys have heard this, probably since you started in B.C. and then came to P.E.I., that it is a problem. Is it a common theme that you hear about food coming into our country not meeting the same standards? Is it the same

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Patrick. We thought it was important to describe the provincial challenges so that the committee would know what maybe is going on in the province. We did a presentation to the provincial Standing Committee on Agriculture, and they told us that if we had the opportuni

Agriculture committee  Good morning. I had requested to go near the beginning because I do have an off-farm job that does pay my mortgage payments on my farm, and after work I go work on the farm. It's just a note that I did mention that I'd like to go first. Good morning, and thank you for the invit

Agriculture committee  I would like to say two things. The government needs to get its priorities in line, and we need to start focusing on agriculture. I know that the government has been working hard to try to develop procedures and to try to face these issues, but we need to move on it. That's my on

Agriculture committee  I think Mark can also comment on this. We had a brief discussion about price floors. It was actually his idea to bring it into the presentation on how we're going to develop business risk management. Price floors are more of a guarantee for producers. They are developing that ga

Agriculture committee  Well, I imagine you'd have to look at that federally. Mark, do you want to comment?

Agriculture committee  I can use myself as a prime example of trying to get into farming. I grew up on a large hog operation. My father started out very young. He built up the operation, assuming that the sons would take over. The first son started, but realized that he couldn't make any money at it.