Agriculture committee  Well, there's always a market at a price. Canada can probably develop niche markets at very high prices, but it would never, ever, be a volume exporter of Canadian dairy products; we're simply priced out of the world market. Our company intended to build a Canadian export-based

Agriculture committee  I would like to point out that we did not in any way question the quality of Canadian products. We said that imported products, contrary to what some people might think, were not inferior in quality. Their quality is at least as good as that of Canadian products. Moreover, if w

Agriculture committee  I imagine those numbers are available. I mentioned earlier that we had one foot in a supply management quota system and the other in the free market. Regarding the sharing of this information, we have strict obligations as a business for competitiveness reasons. That said, there

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I think you're right. There's a raft of reasons, and I would say it's all of those. There's price, quality, availability--those are basically the three--and technology. The dairy industry in Canada wouldn't be where it is today (a) without supply management and (b) wi

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll assume I've been asked the question, “How come we use MPCs and MPIs?” I think it's a very important question. The dairy processing industry functions with one foot in the supply management system, from the standpoint of milk supply. We buy our milk