Agriculture committee  I'll take the first stab at it. I think a lot of us have looked at that opportunity, but I think there are a couple of things that are yet unknown. First, how much of this product will be available? And of course, that's fully dependent on what kind of segregation we're going to

Agriculture committee  I have an additional comment. Private industry doesn't usually get filled in on what's happening in intergovernmental negotiations. I know there's some frustration here because we can't tell you the answer, but as private industry, we're not often privy to what's being negotiated

Agriculture committee  Maybe I'll turn it over to Kevin, but my initial thought would simply be that this is why we're talking about problems. We need to define this first part of funding, so we know what it's for. We're already saying that there are going to be some transitional measures, because it'

Agriculture committee  To clarify a point, it wouldn't necessarily matter whether we find more cases or not. The reality is that we've had the cases, we've been defined, and we're going through this risk classification with OIE to determine what it is. But unless we have many more cases.... In fact, wi

Agriculture committee  I would say this, Mr. Steckle. Of all the countries in the world that have had a BSE occurrence, to date there are only two countries that have not implemented a full feed and food ban, and that's Canada and the United States. We're going to--certainly that's expected--and the U.

Agriculture committee  That's right. I'm in the biofuels business now. I have been for 15 years, and we've looked at this. We look at this as a potential on a couple of issues. It may have the potential to be biodigested to create methane and for thermal generation. It may become a feedstock, because w

Agriculture committee  There's no question, I think, that those are the issues. We can only absorb enough cost until the cattle start going somewhere else. So we'll either be non-competitive in the feeding sectors against our U.S. counterparts, who have very large capacities—they could easily swallow u

Agriculture committee  Certainly this was a topic of discussion at several federal–provincial meetings of agriculture ministers and others. The announcement was made, the funding was out there. The problem, of course, is that no one government has jurisdiction over all these things. Municipal disposal,

Agriculture committee  I'll only speak as fast as I can think, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing on the enhanced feed ban and inviting us to advise this committee on the policies we believe Canada's nearly 100,000 cattle producers require. My name is Brad Wildeman. I'm a