Agriculture committee  I was just going to congratulate Mr. Atamanenko on his bill. I was very glad to see it drafted, very glad to see it presented, and extremely relieved to see it pass second reading. I hope it survives committee. I think it will be a great step forward for producers if we can get

Agriculture committee  If you look at a map of the composition of one of the two major packing companies left in western Canada, you find there's ownership of just about every conceivable sort of company by the same family, right down to the auction marts. I don't know how far they go toward the grocer

Agriculture committee  My name is Beverly Stow. My husband, Reg, and I farm at Graysville, on the western edge of Manitoba's Red River Valley. We also still have my home farm at Snowflake, which is in its 131st year of being part of our family. I wish to thank the committee for hearing our thoughts on