International Trade committee  We have over 50,000.

International Trade committee  I didn't break ours out.

International Trade committee  We have about, I'd say, just over $20 billion.

International Trade committee  I don't have that number off the top of my head, but I can make a commitment to get it to the committee.

International Trade committee  I think on the grain, oilseed, and pulse side, we are selling to a large degree. We are selling malt barley. We are selling wheat. We are selling canola. We're selling a lot of our crops to a number of these countries that are already in the TPP. We are selling a lot of that. I t

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. As you know, what a trade agreement does is it gives you the opportunity to be successful. It doesn't guarantee you'll be successful. That's up to your own entrepreneurial skills. It's up to you to go out there and market your products and displace so

International Trade committee  Thank you. I'm going to be referring specifically to the deck that was passed around. I'm going to take you through it. There are a number of photos and some facts in there. I'll be referring to that continuously as I go through, so I will ask people to follow along with me. Th

International Trade committee  Not quite. The weeds would be bigger.

International Trade committee  Wherever you farm, if you have a lot of weeds growing you have only a couple of solutions. One is hand tillage. Here's a photo out of Africa. I used to work for an international organization and I did a lot of work in Africa. This is how you control the weeds in Africa. If you

International Trade committee  Maybe manufacturing first...?

International Trade committee  At the Canola Council of Canada—and I sat on the Canola Council for many years—we meet with the Japanese every summer. Not only do they go to Prince Edward Island, but they come out to the prairies and they look at the crops there as well. We have regular consultations with them.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  That's correct. We continue to start deals, and all of those markets are important, but at some point we need to actually finish some of these to keep our resource.... We have only so many trade negotiators. After a deal is signed, that's only the start of it, as you're suggest

International Trade committee  That's a good question. There are probably a couple of things. One is that on rail service review, I think it's key that members of Parliament on all sides continue to reinforce to the railways that, you know, you guys have a virtual monopoly, you're taking excess profits, you'

International Trade committee  No. For some of the crops a certain quota is allowed, and after that there are just prohibitive tariffs. Some of the other crops simply have a tariff up front, so it's not quite the same as what the beef people face.