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Agriculture committee The help lines have been re-established in rural Canada for a reason. This is not just an economic situation. This is a family situation; this is a community situation. If Canada lets our producers fall, there are going to be equipment dealers, there are going to be veterinaria
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee That's one way of addressing it, through APP. It's not the only solution. We did meet with the minister this morning at 8 o'clock. We think there are some opportunities and possibilities, but the issue is about timing. It's time to deliver. We have to get it done. We have to st
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee To date we haven't had a response.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee Do you want to respond, Stephen?
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee My response is very simple: the time to talk is over; the time to deliver is now. Talking doesn't help us anymore. The direction needs to come from the political side down. We've been working with the bureaucrats for about two to two and a half months, and I think they're very cl
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee To answer the first question, I have two examples. There was a producer in Middlesex County who took out the APP. He got his money. Two weeks later he got a CAIS cheque, but it went to pay off the APP. The second story is about a young producer in Perth County, who was counting
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee We need loans that are available that come in behind the bank for security reasons. If APP is going to be the vehicle we use to address that, then we need significant legislative change to make it possible.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee They would be security tied to inventory, and a delinking with CAIS, or at least based on future CAIS payments as opposed to the immediate ones. Third is the issue of the definition of “$400,000 per unit” as opposed to “producer”. Fourth, it would also be helpful if the repayment
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee What we need is cash for our producers through a loan program to avoid a Black Friday and an animal welfare issue that would not be helpful.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee That isn't countervailable and that has some security. Secondly, we need the federal and provincial governments to work together to fix the CAIS program and to get it done quickly.
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee Cash is a huge problem. It's not a normal low. We don't want to lose the infrastructure in this country. We don't want rural Canada to be decimated, so absolutely. There are COD feed deliveries now, and at a certain point the unsecured creditors say we can't go any further. When
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee Let me be clear that the December 19th response was a cruel joke to many of our producers. There were false hopes and false assumptions and false expectations that simply weren't deliverable. The dollars are there but are currently not available to help us through the process. W
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee Although we would love to have money in our pocket that doesn't have to be repaid, we live in a globalized world and are concerned about trade. We're committed to living in that reality. What we need is the ability to allow our producers to have a chance to make an intelligent b
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee Thank you again for giving us the opportunity, and for your continuing concern in terms of what's happening in our sector. They're extremely difficult times. We're going to address the two questions that we've been asked to address in terms of this committee. One is the reaction
January 31st, 2008Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel
Agriculture committee And I wanted to respond.
March 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
Clare Schlegel