Agriculture committee  That is the spirit of our brief: for the future of agriculture and the next generation of farmers, we have to develop a new mentality and truly come up with a long-term agriculture policy. Today we are suffering the effects of the choices that were made some 15 years ago, in the

Agriculture committee  I think it would be reasonable to have different applications for each region of Canada, because farming varies greatly from one region to the next, and therefore the needs also vary greatly. I do not believe that standardizing the income security program across Canada would be v

Agriculture committee  I believe that the request made by the stakeholders when they were consulted in 2008 was to allow the provinces to manage the AgriFlexibility funds themselves. I think that would be the best solution. That would allow each region of Canada to manage the resources based on their n

Agriculture committee  Good morning and thank you for the invitation to speak here today. My name is Luc Belzile and I am a research and communication officer with the Fédération des producteurs de cultures commerciales du Québec. Here with me is William Van Tassel, the first vice-president of our fed