Agriculture committee  With respect to Mr. Roberge and our Varennes project, we have a very good R and D program right now, a very active R and D program, looking at those kinds of things. We have an R and D project that we've been working on for a couple of years now in partnership with another Canadi

Agriculture committee  If I could address the second question as well, which is about benefits and reducing subsidies, etc., anecdotally, let me explain what happens in Quebec with the farmers who supply our plant. Today, Quebec is an exporter of corn. Many farmers send their corn out of the province

Agriculture committee  On the issue of grain surplus supplies in Quebec, the number one reason we're in Quebec and building a plant there is because of the surplus corn. Farmers--again, a big part of the reason for us being there--attracted us to that region because they had corn to sell. We located in

Agriculture committee  Thanks. Let me just address that first by saying that our company—certainly our industry, but our company—will not survive if we don't have a healthy, sustainable, and profitable agriculture sector in Canada. That's a given. You asked whether we could sustain higher grain pri

Agriculture committee  I have one final comment. You're very right about the wet cake being more important in the future. Our Quebec project has a very aggressive wet distillers grain marketing program that we're getting ready to roll out. And the dairy industry, as you all know, is very important to Q

Agriculture committee  I would like to comment on that as well. We've got one project under construction and two in the pipeline, and we've opted to do the same thing, which is that we've licensed U.S. technology but we're using Canadian construction know-how to build our plants, particularly in Quebec