Agriculture committee  I assume you're referring to players in the field, to farmers and ranchers. In this country a lot of the provisions that are more relevant to them are governed under the Health of Animals Act. We've been assured on a number of occasions that this bill largely deals with the matte

Agriculture committee  Live animals. There's quite a bit of concentration in the processing industry in this country. You cannot move an animal without some traceability requirements, and a lot of that's provincial in nature. We're working on things that go beyond what's looked at. We're looking at na

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I would like to make a comment about the consultation on regulations. From the beef sector, I can say that every time we have a beef value chain round table, we are fully updated on the progress of the modernization work that's being done and we've been invited direct

Agriculture committee  Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to appear today. I'm the executive vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, CCA. On behalf of our 83,000 members from coast to coast, we want to emphasize that we consider food safety an absolutely critical issue for

Agriculture committee  I don't have the precise recent number here, but it's a smaller number than that. Initially it was only available to the feeding sector. They're rolling it out to the feeder cattle, which will allow cow-calf producers and backgrounders to get involved. But we'd be happy to com

Agriculture committee  I don't have the most current numbers, but I will say that it tends to move up and down with your insurance options and what it looks like your coverage will be. It's designed to allow you to take a look at a future price scenario. It essentially buys some insurance against that.

Agriculture committee  Yes, we do. There is excellent value in moving forward. I also chair the Beef Value Chain Roundtable. We have actively been proposing this and discussing this since 2007. In fact, we were told at one stage that they thought they'd have it in place by 2011. Some pilots were alre

Agriculture committee  Let me introduce John Masswohl, who is our director of international affairs. John has been working very actively on the CETA file. Before I do that, a number of us who were involved for many years will recall in the early eighties that Europe was our second largest export market

Agriculture committee  First, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and for accommodating us here in Quebec City. The Canadian Cattlemen's Association is the national organization that represents over 80,000 beef cattle producers from across Canada and across all sectors of beef catt