Agriculture committee  Also, I think you mentioned the maximum residue levels, for example, and this is the same example I used when I was talking about the fruit growers earlier. There are products grown in the United States on which they can use certain pesticides, yet we're competing with these peop

Agriculture committee  So which products specifically come—

Agriculture committee  There's no time left, Mr. Atamanenko. As a matter of fact, we only have five minutes left and that will not be enough for a full round. However, if my colleagues have very short questions, I might accept a few. Mr. Gourde, do you have a question?

Agriculture committee  If we were going to do this we would have to restructure our schedule for the rest of the session to fit in transportation somehow. I don't think we can do that.

Agriculture committee  We could have a proposal to leave early, so if we were doing that—

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions. The first is from the residents of Osoyoos and Nelson in my riding of British Columbia Southern Interior. They have signed a petition in regard to child care, requesting that Parliament work together in this minority Parliament to provide the

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, my third petition is from residents of British Columbia Southern Interior, other areas of B.C., and Saskatchewan. These petitioners are calling upon the Government of Canada to remove Canadian soldiers from Afghanistan immediately. They feel that it should not be the

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, the second petition deals with autism. This petition was signed by residents of the West Kootenay area of my riding, from Trail, Castlegar, Rossland, Montrose, Robson, Fruitville, Warfield and South Slocan. The petitioners ask Parliament to amend the Canada Health A

Rural Mail Delivery  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member's talk on the postal situation in rural Canada is timely. I just received a call in my riding office and I would like his opinion. The person said there are not enough post office boxes in the rural areas because the population is growing faster than

International Trade committee  Thank you. Now to the New Democratic Party, Mr. Atamanenko.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. And thanks for being here, gentlemen. All of a sudden I may have to jump up and leave because I have to talk in the House, actually on this issue, but hopefully I'll have a chance to ask my question. Maybe I'll ask Mr. Friesen to respond and the rest of

International Trade committee  Initially to Mr. Friesen, and then to anybody else who would like to....

International Trade committee  Finally, it's my understanding, then, that we can gain market access only by compromising or changing our supply management system. Is there no other way that we can gain more market access and bring those other subsidies down, other than fooling around with our current supply ma

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Atamanenko. Thanks for coming to our committee. I've enjoyed having you here. Now to the five-minute round, starting with the official opposition, the Liberals, Mr. Temelkovski.

Committees of the House  Mr. Speaker, the main issue facing us today is that dairy producers are being hurt by the importation of milk protein concentrates. The reason for this is that they are classified as proteins and not milk products. Eighty-five per cent of these milk protein concentrates are over