Mr. William Van Tassel at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On April 25th, 2007. See this statement in context.

April 25th, 2007 / 3:15 p.m.

First Vice-President, Fédération des producteurs de cultures commerciales du Québec

For Ontario and Quebec, we could put out figures, but I'll go for all of Canada, where it would be a national program with provincial flexibility.

There was a study done around 1999 by Agriculture Canada, giving the costs to Canadian grain farmers caused by foreign subsidies, the Farm Bill and also Europe. In those days they were talking about $1.2 billion, if I remember right. That's the last Farm Bill. The Farm Bill from 2002 aggravated the hurt. So probably we're calculating $1.5 billion or $1.6 billion for the hurt caused by foreign subsidies.

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