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Agriculture committee I can maybe use the comparator to what low tech is to better describe it. Mexico is quite well known, and Spain is well known for low tech. In their climates they don't require having the greenhouse totally enclosed, for example. Mexico is well known for shade cloth production.
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee No, we're very familiar with Red Hat Co-op and Lyle Aleman. We have ongoing dialogue with him through the Canadian Horticultural Council greenhouse subcommittee.
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee Is that to me from the greenhouse sector?
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee Okay. There was one point I didn't talk about, yes.
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee Yes, I did have a point earlier that relates to how the greenhouse farmers face a serious threat to market access with the lack of an effective security mechanism. Farmers and marketers of perishable produce receive valuable protection within the United States market through vari
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee I do want to talk about that pepper situation with Holland.
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee The bottom line is we are competitive with Holland. I didn't want to leave the misconception that we aren't competitive. That's why we challenged them. They were actually dumping in here. We won the case and we got 193% duty and the Dutch did not put up any data to prove otherwis
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee One of the things most of the major retailers, or definitely the advanced ones, throughout North America are looking for is the traceability on it. We were leaders certainly in the food safety aspect of it. We were almost first out of the box in the produce sector in Canada to pr
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee One of the things we do in the market that's quite unique to.... It's not unique in the marketplace, but we do it aggressively, and that's the use of in-store demos in the United States, in particular. We have a couple of products we grow, mainly the English cucumber and the min
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee I thought I had seven minutes, Mr. Chairperson.
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee Really? I didn't realize that. Nevertheless, we're doing a fair bit of work in developing new markets. One of the things we're looking at is developing the Pacific Rim. We're going to investigate new markets and we ask that the federal government continue to provide financial a
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy
Agriculture committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is George Gilvesy. I'm the general manager of Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers. With me is Leanne Wilson, who is our science coordinator. As far as the freezing, that's pretty symbolic of greenhouse growing because we do things in a controll
May 12th, 2014Committee meeting
George Gilvesy