Agriculture committee  I would disagree with the assumption that food is cheap. If one looks at the distribution of the income from food, one can see that in a lot of sectors, the consumer is paying more and the producer is earning less. So I disagree with that assumption. The other thing I tend to di

Agriculture committee  What we have to do is recapture the sovereignty that was lost over a period of decades in negotiating trade agreements and the like, because when we regain sovereignty, then those people we elect to the House of Commons in Ottawa will be able to focus on developing an agricultura

Agriculture committee  When I spoke about low-input agriculture, I was thinking of some of the very interesting work done by Martin Entz at the University of Manitoba, who has been looking at doing this through capturing nitrogen from the atmosphere, and so on. The results have shown a return as good a

Agriculture committee  I too have had some experience dealing with the Competition Bureau. One experience was in regard to the consolidation in the hog slaughter industry. At the time, the Competition Bureau in its wisdom found that of course there was competition in Manitoba because we could deliver o

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, if you take away public support to agriculture and use the market returns that were earned from the marketplace itself, you'll come up with an actual figure that will be, actually, about $1.45 per acre. I was generous.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think the problem we're looking at today is not one of production. It's not one of climate, although there is, from time to time, some variability. The problem is often one of denial. We've invested at least 40 years in going in a direction where the m