International Trade committee  Unfortunately, Madam Chair, I'm booked back to back all day Thursday.

Agriculture committee  Off the top of my head, I'd say the greenhouse sector is just under $1 billion.

Agriculture committee  Products should not be entering the country if they have not met Canadian standards. Mechanisms are in place at the border to protect the Canadian marketplace. If a product is crossing the border without meeting our quality, food safety and labelling standards, then it's a grea

Agriculture committee  I have a great concern on a tariff-based system, only because the country that establishes tariffs is also the country that has to deal with tariffs on their trading programs. We've been fortunate enough in the fresh fruit and vegetable industry to be a non-tariff form of busine

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. MacGregor. The question is good. There is a CPMA member company whose product line is called Earthcycle. They actually were with us in Europe promoting this Canadian product. It has a fibre base, and they have a range of other products that do meet the market an

Agriculture committee  I think the integrated approach is key here. The challenges are the federal-provincial jurisdictional issues that were noted by the chair, but we can surpass those challenges. I think the federal government can take a lead here. There has been a lot of good work, and modelling

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  They're from the Deloitte report. There are a series of reports that are publicly available on our website. I'm happy to have our staff forward them all. I think they have been provided to the committee, but I'm happy to have them sent to the committee again.

Agriculture committee  I can.

Agriculture committee  This is a dramatic shift. We need to look at the targeted and time-limited carbon tax exemption for the agriculture industry. For greenhouses specifically, right now the sector estimates that the carbon tax costs about $22 million annually. If we move forward, that's going to ri

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. MacGregor. This is the complexity of the issue. We need a strategic approach federally that brings together the provinces, harmonizes our EPR systems, and educates Canadians. That's the simple answer. When we look at the proposed regulatory approach and the P2 no

Agriculture committee  Yes—no worries.

Agriculture committee  It will be dramatically higher, if we can move them at all. This is part of the challenge. It would basically, with the current proposed model, eliminate all the bagged salad industry. It would eliminate any of the value-added components like all of the fresh-cut business. Consu

Agriculture committee  If we start combining all the.... I mentioned that because of a lack of consumption and because the convenience of packaging also enables consumption and drives consumption within the Canadian market, we are looking at that $8-billion figure. With every reduced serving, we see th

Agriculture committee  There are a series of components. The right packaging choice is packaging so that the consumer can identify and see the product. It's a visual experience to see and understand the product. Everyone turns their strawberries upside down when they purchase them. Then you're lookin