Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. We were able to seek a program from the provincial government to pull out all of the juice grapes. Unfortunately, the only processing plants today for these types of products are in the United States or in British Columbia—SunRype. You can't possibly

Agriculture committee  Certainly, and again, I appreciate the question. What is important to us has been stated. I think it's probably obvious. We believe in growing the 100% Canadian domestic market. We will never get there if 25% in the bottle of a blended bottle of wine is incented with excise tax

Agriculture committee  First, the minimum of 25% is something we can achieve now based on our grape supply. In 2008 we had 8,000 tonnes of grapes dropped on the ground and not purchased. At that point, we had 30% in the bottle. It has actually decreased to 25%. So we can more than achieve the expectati

Agriculture committee  I don't think I can add very much to what Hillary is suggesting, but I want to go back to the comment again. The $6.8 billion economic impact of the industry, just today, has the potential to double going forward. It really does talk about the collective approach of how we approa

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. I'm glad Art was here representing the industry. Of course, my focus today has been.... We do have concerns. I don't know whether I should repeat all of them but to be quite candid with you, we have had to take on a responsibility as an industry to assure o

Agriculture committee  We certainly support what he has put forward on our behalf.

Agriculture committee  May I, Mr. Chair?

Agriculture committee  Thank you. One of the very important elements that Derek mentioned is that in the grape and wine industry, what is important to us is growing our domestic market. Some of the barriers to that are what we're seeing from other international markets that see Canada as a target. We

Agriculture committee  I think Derek said it very well. I know Hillary will want to comment from her membership's perspective. We face the same challenges on our side of the ledger, the container sizes. The comment from our wine industry in particular has been that they will be affected if this happen

Agriculture committee  Yes. Hillary may want to add to that.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. The Grape Growers of Ontario is the official organization, acting under the authority of the farm products marketing commission, which represents all of Ontario’s 500 growers of 17,000 acres of processing grapes, inc

Finance committee  How much do they own of our domestic market, or...?

Finance committee  It's over 75%, in most cases.

Finance committee  In most cases.

Finance committee  Yes.