Agriculture committee  I just want to come back to beef being a commodity at risk in this country. I prefer to tell the truth to my farmers rather than think nothing will happen. If I had been part of the fisheries sector 15 years ago, I would have hoped somebody around the table had told the truth t

Agriculture committee  A COOL system in the U.S.... Talk with western farmers. They very often have a premium to deliver in the U.S., because they're charged. The cost of that beef in the U.S. is a little bit lower. Sometimes it's not a pile of money—$5 or $10 per head. It sometimes may move the farmer

Agriculture committee  As a farmer, I don't think we are expecting return on this $31.70, especially on the cow-calf and finished beef. As a farmer, I don't think--

Agriculture committee  Yes. We are talking about cows, old cows. I think if there is better security at the slaughter plant.... We don't like the packers to make a lot of money, but we'd like them to make a little bit of money to make sure they stay there. Now we are afraid they will close. We're quite

Agriculture committee  I've made some comments in the last six months, at least, if not more, about this industry. Those comments are really in line with what is happening in beef, but pork is not that much different. Those two commodities in our country are at risk. And they're not just at risk of los

Agriculture committee  First, I'm not a scientist. I'm a farmer and I'm proud to be a farmer. It's very difficult for me to argue against the U.S. or the Canadian formula that is applied, but there is a big difference in comparing what the U.S. is doing and what we are doing here, that's for sure.

Agriculture committee  Everyone in Canada agrees that harm was done. There is such a degree of consensus between the beef and pork sector representatives and government representatives that the Canadian government decided to ask the WTO to investigate the COOL issue. In Canada there's a general consens

Agriculture committee  Meat is coming back, with the USDA stamp. Where is the original coming from? Is it the U.S., Canada, Mexico, somewhere else?

Agriculture committee  I would say immediately. As I said before, and I think others mentioned, this problem has been there for years. If at the beginning we had the same idea that Mr. Read mentioned, that we would have everybody paying so it will improve our market, it would have improved the Canadian

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon to you all. Thank you for your invitation to participate in this meeting of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, which is studying the issue of residual material. This is a topic which, in my opinion, we have talked about for far too long, without e

Finance committee  Are you talking about slaughterhouses?

Finance committee  As far as livestock is concerned, the situation is the same in the east, in Central Canada and out west. Hog production has declined pretty much everywhere in Canada. The industry has fared somewhat better in Quebec because it has received more support over the last several years

Finance committee  As far as the differences between Canadian and US regulations are concerned, the Americans have a so-called short list. They struggled with BSE just like Canada did, but the problem was much milder for them. Could it be that they encounter fewer problems because they don't go loo

Finance committee  Small slaughterhouses face the same problem because their costs are the same. It's even more complicated for small diversified slaughterhouses. I personally invested in a slaughterhouse close to your region, in Saint-Grégoire. We completely rebuilt the facility, then were forced

Finance committee  Regarding specific risk material, further to the BSE crisis, we are calling on the Canadian government to cover the cost difference between Canadian and US regulations, until such time as the two countries have harmonized their regulatory regimes. Markets are too open to allow su