Barry Devolin at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.

May 17th, 2007 / 4:35 p.m.

Conservative

Barry Devolin Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

So the growth in imports of chicken around the rules, so to speak, could be a consequence of two things. One would be consumers are buying more and more processed food products across the board. The second reason would be that companies are deliberately producing products to take advantage of this rule.

So which of those two, in your view, would explain the majority of the increase, the changing consumer preferences or companies deliberately setting out to take advantage of the situation?

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