Agriculture committee  Mr. Eyking, we did comment and were basically wondering how it would be implemented and enforced. We're concerned about minor offences of little risk to human or animal health and were wondering if these was going to be caught up in these automatic $5,000 minimums. Our concern is

Agriculture committee  And they don't always get caught—

Agriculture committee  Correct. You've made a great point about being more of a coach than a referee. For instance, at the time of the XL crisis a couple of years ago, in the fall—I forget the acronym—for minor offences it used to be that the CFIA would just work through it with them. But because there

Agriculture committee  I'll start. Definitely the innovations that we need to become competitive again in western Canada with the feed grains we use.... In barley, for instance, there has been very little progress in yield and other attributes of the crop compared to corn, canola, and soybeans, all of

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Allen. I think the scenario around this is improving. We used to be at a very clear disadvantage: companies would have products available to our competitors in the United States and other parts of the world, but we were unable to access those same products because

Agriculture committee  Ladies and Gentleman, hello from Edmonton. As mentioned, I am Dave Solverson, president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. With me is Ryder Lee. Many of you will know him; he's one of our people in Ottawa. I would like to say thanks to Ryder for digging deep into this agric